Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2021-04-11

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 11:03 AM Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4/8/21 5:09 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 21:51 Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org
> > <mailto:juippis@gentoo.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Why hasn't this been switched yet?
> >
> >
> > We don't have the infrastructure to support this yet. E.g. if we told
> > people to do it our anon git service would likely fall over and stop
> > working.
> >
> >
> I like the "yet" part. Meantime, default to Github/gentoo-mirror?

I think you know that that's not going to be an acceptable solution
for many people.

> One thing I was also thinking, how heavy is git as a package compared to
> rsync in stage3. But to me, doesn't sound heavier at all, especially if
> it's built with a lot of USE flags off.

% equery size net-misc/rsync dev-vcs/git
 * net-misc/rsync-3.2.3-r2
         Total files : 31
         Total size  : 979.02 KiB

 * dev-vcs/git-2.26.3
         Total files : 638
         Total size  : 31.70 MiB

A bit of a difference :)

I agree that we should be trending towards using git for emerge --sync.