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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GDJph-0002cX-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:45:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7GBhhqZ008368; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:43:43 GMT Received: from ehmsen.org (ehmsen.org [85.218.161.209]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7GBeOQ9017672 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:40:24 GMT Received: from antonia.imada.sdu.dk ([130.225.128.54]) by ehmsen.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GDJl1-00064n-BF for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:40:23 +0200 Message-ID: <44E30425.5080503@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:40:21 +0200 From: Martin Rud Ehmsen Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) 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] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations] References: <1154366720.17142.126.camel@rivendell> <20060801082153.GC29200@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20060816112727.GB13586@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20060816112727.GB13586@nibiru.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ehmsen@ehmsen.org X-ACL-Warn: BEGIN SPAM X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-ACL-Warn: END SPAM X-Archives-Salt: 5c745a53-1a33-4782-9b47-0ace1f0c4fd6 X-Archives-Hash: e87fdb449e5b97db74c2a5397f3366b4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate > (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. > > For example: KDE. > Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). > Others are very interested in it. > > If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main > tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from > the mirrors. I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. I maintain a separate part (different from KDE) of the tree and I simply just avoid doing "cd kde-*" when I'm doing stuff in the tree (I simply just forget it is there) :-) In the rare case that my actions require that I actually look at kde stuff, then it would be a pain in the ass if I had to get it from somewhere else, and not have it right at hand. The above of course only holds if the tree is structured in a good way, which I think it is (to a large degree, one can always find special cases). And an argument along the lines of "the tree is too large to download" does not apply either. If one cannot sync the tree over his/hers internet connection, then one can clearly not download gcc either :-) Martin R. Ehmsen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4wQloCiIG96jYfYRAh4iAKDVA9HYS1oSDj8hgvH9kvQBMbBbpACdFIAH 2ypo9/R5xGLzC6D1dIMjM4Q= =ROAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list