From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWJ6M-0006J4-1M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:30:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F456E0453; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9FAE0453 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so357213nfi.26 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:30:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=tP3A62vUO4PSZWNKlr+F5gD34ITyIQaHqhapTmoL2yA=; b=DG68Xlt1QxjwRzGz0388n812gGdmalrrsXAgKd/LfYT7EwYlnVym7eb46x/RP86TNz b3j4A4KkYpGxTV5xIuXf8bEdBoHgwD82IFMIr6zMAg7FOpWTqKaIUKg2olHYLB5mtprt IPUDEr/5DQ57MpVhntl5R0bPKYky5jBBXLX14= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=eltDM+RTbPM0ju4ldWqpqyKo81dbDS5RTCoec5hqb6NbCy0H3HKjsgvYnqVb+wvCY0 WFalvCGO1dqkzaf0ERnYCMrXSRGDv/jEXULrRcvDEDNdrNlVlN6rmoqmhklGGyg2goK1 7jnvAsEL89lcmxPSKrWXRQjDiRTDoNRInw+L4= Received: by 10.67.116.9 with SMTP id t9mr1977952ugm.61.1234135809430; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r38sm5302168ugc.9.2009.02.08.15.30.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:30:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:30:08 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation Message-ID: <20090208233008.6350dd40@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <498F6A7A.2060408@gentoo.org> References: <498758E6.5080609@gentoo.org> <1234045916.24784.1373.camel@localhost> <498E17E6.8060407@gentoo.org> <20090208221814.722f573a@snowmobile> <498F5FF5.50203@gentoo.org> <20090208224721.4193ca45@snowmobile> <498F64D4.4080303@gentoo.org> <20090208231010.4b2ebe3b@snowmobile> <498F6A7A.2060408@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/+aJ1EO5No87MBU14WJRSo5k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e3a0c55c-6d32-4377-95e5-0faaf2ff84a0 X-Archives-Hash: c1088bc84192a8368a0826a71c613e60 --Sig_/+aJ1EO5No87MBU14WJRSo5k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: > > Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to > > keep track of and store junk under version control. >=20 > I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I > said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule. If you start encouraging this approach, are you prepared to make Portage warn extremely noisily if a repository-provided (as opposed to user generated) cache entry is found to be stale? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/+aJ1EO5No87MBU14WJRSo5k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmPawQACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFt3ACfazT+ZD3XQYi0v/tg8F/uxC2z w94AniKk2VYaLTLj2xtH7ZAMQb3sSY65 =JbJ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+aJ1EO5No87MBU14WJRSo5k--