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

["Rémi Cardona" <remi@gentoo.org>]

Petteri Räty a écrit :
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:30:58 +0200
>> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> It would probably be useful to provide a central rsync infra for
>>> overlays where overlay maintainers could subscribe their overlays to
>>> and the machine would pull in their VCS and generate the metadata for
>>> them.
>> How much do you trust overlay maintainers?
>>
> 
> It shouldn't be that hard to sandbox the overlays for cache generation.
> Trust should be much more of an issue to people actually installing
> stuff from overlays. Adding new overlays to the server would probably
> have to be manual.

I can't possibly be the *only* one to think that the ideas in this 
thread are getting out of hand as far as complexity is concerned.

Seriously, let's try to do simpler things that most developers can 
understand.

Cheers,

Rémi