maillog: 14/10/2004-15:49:17(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:43:11 -0700 Mark Dierolf <mark@3e0.com> wrote:
> | I've been watching this discussion as far as tree size, and i'm
> | suprised nobody has brought the idea of on-demand downloading yet.
> 
> Nobody has mentioned it because it has been discussed and dismissed as
> unworkable several times before.

I am not really a fan of these on-demand downloads, but I am just
brainstorming here:

Why not sync the metadata directory only? Then use the information in
there to check what packages are needed to emerge something. The
metadata is only 9MB and it has everything that's needed to calculate
the dependencies, right? It also contains the SRC_URI, so ebuild
downloads and source file downloads can go in parallel or something.

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