Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 -0800
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> No, it's just encouraging bad development practices.
>> It seems like you're making a rather arbitrary judgment.
> 
> Not storing generated content under revision control is hardly an
> arbitrary judgement. It's a well accepted software development bad
> practice.

In general, it's a good rule of thumb. However, in this case I think
we have a justifiable exception to the rule.

>>> If you're concerned that setting up an rsync mirror is difficult,
>>> why not make a tool that generates a tarball, including metadata,
>>> for a repo, and have people run that on a cron and distribute it
>>> via http? That's just as easy to host, and anyone running an
>>> overlay big enough to make this impractical already has the
>>> resources to deal with rsync instead...
>> I'm not saying that it necessarily "difficult" or "beyond the
>> resources", but it does create an unnecessary burden. I think that
>> it adds a significant level of convenience to be able to use a
>> version control system as a single distribution channel.
> 
> Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to
> keep track of and store junk under version control.

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.
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Thanks,
Zac
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