From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbuFp-0005Qy-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:11:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91006E0339; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter6.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter6.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181CDE0339 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:11:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlQBAL+LX0l2XGXQ/2dsb2JhbAAIyXKFcoFp X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,258,1233486000"; d="scan'208";a="78869729" Received: from 118-92-101-208.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO [10.1.1.3]) ([118.92.101.208]) by smtp.mailfilter6.ihug.co.nz with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2009 23:11:06 +1300 Message-ID: <49A3C7B6.70300@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:11:02 +1300 From: Alistair Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090102) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) References: <1234257125.18160.2016.camel@localhost> <49A206A7.3050604@gentoo.org> <49A39CE7.4010201@gentoo.org> <200902240929.44778.george@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200902240929.44778.george@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: url= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2a0345c-491b-4927-bbc7-e67476d79a7e X-Archives-Hash: 2b37a69c58ba3f22383690e694ec3971 George Shapovalov wrote: > (Ok this thread grew too long, so I gotta chime in :)) > > We could start using extended attributes or mandate reiser4 for portage dir or > some other special "in between" (the inside of file and its name) feature.. No. 1) I wouldn't use reiser4 so that would be the end of that. 2) how well do rsync and cvs support xattr's. How about linux support verses bsd, or windows even. 3) It is just a bad solution > > Sorry for the noise and insane "implementation" suggestion :).. At least you realise it :)