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 4.54) id 1FGMgP-0006Ht-QB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:51:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k26Kod84011212; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:50:39 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k26Kmfxk032167 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:48:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3085C7AD139 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:48:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26303-14 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:48:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.4.153] (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CA27AD138 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:48:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <440CA0D4.8060103@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:51:32 +0000 From: Francesco Riosa User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060211) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles References: <440BF91D.4050809@amd.co.at> In-Reply-To: <440BF91D.4050809@amd.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: c2c6f92d-b6fe-4f67-a922-10f691771c62 X-Archives-Hash: 423be2ac9959134a5ee626e32bbe14bc Michael Renner wrote: > Introducing an additional directory hierarchy should fix this, and is > the common solution for this problem for various projects, be it debian > [1], cpan [2], slackware [3], etc. > > > One migration scenario for a better future: > > Create subdirectories named after the first letter of each file and move > the files in their respective directories. > Splitting the files using only one letter leave some directory with still too much files in imho. g 2879 l 2394 p 2049 s 2018 versus l li 1652 k kd 888 x xf 670 g gn 559 li* (lib) are still a lot, but more manageable. the total number of files in my mirror directory is 32000, but I don't delete old files, and I've started some months ago. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list