From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HWKQT-0001DY-7R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:46:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2RMj5B7002495; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:45:05 GMT Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2RMhE8E032645 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:43:14 GMT Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0959450613 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:43:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:43:05 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups Message-ID: <20070327234305.7760e0a7@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <200703281030.57196.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> References: <1174788467.4883.29.camel@bruichladdich> <200703280938.19798.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> <20070327225321.2cad4182@snowflake> <200703281030.57196.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig__lgduH7Bbfww/=xJ8cgCdsZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 1dce35e1-2093-4a88-beb5-5d7346fc967a X-Archives-Hash: 58bd5b1becd694685e166e05d5148ff1 --Sig__lgduH7Bbfww/=xJ8cgCdsZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:30:56 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > There are plenty of ways of doing that, most of which don't involve > > the huge cost of having to use a horrible version control system... >=20 > I wonder if you would be so kind as to expand on the meaning of your > use of "cost" and "horrible" in the above sentence? Distributed systems don't work well with Gentoo's current development model, which is entirely centralised. There are also issues of performance and stability, both of which were discussed at length the last time this topic came up... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig__lgduH7Bbfww/=xJ8cgCdsZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGCZ3796zL6DUtXhERAgc1AJoDvXVlzTEFBTPOy8/Exm878OjD4gCeM7+P SX7n+cOIX5QS6RusWlAuAfQ= =E6AI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig__lgduH7Bbfww/=xJ8cgCdsZ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list