Brian Harring wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:55:50AM -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
> 
>>A few rough ideas that just popped in my
>>head is either packing all of these versions into one tarball (not even
>>sure if thats feasible)

<snip>

>>, or creating a hashed suffix based upon the
>>useflags enabled/disabled at the time that you append to the tarball name.
> 
> +1 on mangling the name.  Need something for keywords anyways.
> 
> Alternative is expanding the bintree format, cat/pkg-ver being a 
> directory, with the binpkgs held with in...
> 
> Either way, bintree/binpkg format are all rolled into one mess, as 
> stated, open to proposals to make it less sucky.

Is there an alternative format outside of bzip2tarballs that might fit
this better? Ignoring backward compatibility, is there anything?

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