On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:31:03 -0500 Ned Ludd wrote: > Does anybody know the point of /var/db/pkg/*/*/{[A-Z]*,*.ebuild} when > /var/db/pkg/*/*/env*.bz2 contains all the same info minus the > (CBUILD,CONTENTS,COUNTER,DEBUGBUILD)? > > DEBUGBUILD is 0 bytes most of the time. Does it really need to exist > in production environments? > > These sparse files add up in size really quickly and I'd like to see > portage shift into a direction where these things are planned out vs > just added. I don't see any reason why portage could not simply > extract the variables portage from the saved environment.bz2 when > needed or even preloading them. Yeah, this should probably be done when we reorganize the vardb layout as that will already break everything (assuming we make a 2.1 branch, otherwise we could probably go straight to the modular design (sorry, no details yet)). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.