From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8879 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 16:59:28 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Apr 2004 16:59:28 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BD4mO-0002jf-IP for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:59:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 28861 invoked by uid 50004); 12 Apr 2004 16:59:28 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12891 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 16:59:27 +0000 Message-ID: <407ACAF6.1020101@skylineaero.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:59:34 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040403 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200404110755.05096.tom@securescience.net> <200404120803.16933.tom@securescience.net> <20040412122343.GD19192@lion.gg3.net> <200404120836.16542.tom@securescience.net> <1081782749.25073.6.camel@carbon> <407AC251.8040702@skylineaero.com> <1081786998.2075.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1081786998.2075.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers X-Archives-Salt: f253cc5b-81b5-4e6e-a165-3f24d22ee15a X-Archives-Hash: b6ea112ef50c21a794db8a065e2c4189 Todd Berman wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-04 at 11:22 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >>Troy Dack wrote: >> >>>Another point against a monolithic zip containing all the ebuilds (or >>>even per directory zips) is the performance hit that slow machines would >>>take, not everybody runs gentoo on a 2GHz plus machine (eg: my little >>>PII-400 in the corner) >> >>Or my little P233 Thinkpad... >> > > > And with the current setup of writing thousands of 1K files that little > p233 thinkpad really flys i bet... I'm not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic, but yes, it does fly. It only takes slightly longer to sync than my Athlon 1.3GHz desktop. The only part that takes forever is updating the portage cache. That's why I just use a NFS shared portage tree from my desktop machine now. -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list