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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0075: Update for reference implementation
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:39:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6gpnil6fpx.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191024115048.7408-1-mgorny@gentoo.org> ("Michał Górny"'s message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:50:48 +0200")

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>>>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:

> +in 2⁴ = 16 directories), and each of this directories would have

s/this/these/ (This was there before, but can be corrected while at it.)

> +The implementations are only required to support cutoffs being multiples

s/The implementations/Implementations/

> +and maintaining mirrors via ``emirrordist``.  The implementation
> +supports both listed layouts, with all hash functions supported
> +by Portage and cutoffs being multiples of 4.

In the rationale section, one reason given for the choice of the hash
algorithm (BLAKE2B) was to "avoid code duplication". Isn't that argument
moot, if all hashes supported by Portage are implemented? (Or in other
words, couldn't a faster hash function like MD5 be used?)

Ulrich

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-24 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-24 11:50 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0075: Update for reference implementation Michał Górny
2019-10-24 20:39 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2019-10-24 21:00   ` Hanno Böck
2019-10-25  6:26   ` Michał Górny

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