* [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
@ 2005-11-16 4:55 LostSon
2005-11-16 5:32 ` Kevin Hanson
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From: LostSon @ 2005-11-16 4:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo-user
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Hello All
I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
What is this use flag used for, thanks.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
2005-11-16 4:55 [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas LostSon
@ 2005-11-16 5:32 ` Kevin Hanson
2005-11-16 5:37 ` LostSon
2005-11-16 6:03 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-16 19:24 ` znx
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From: Kevin Hanson @ 2005-11-16 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
LostSon wrote:
>Hello All
> I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
>What is this use flag used for, thanks.
>
>
running 'euse -i kdexdeltas' tells me:
"kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire
new tarballs for every new release"
Cheers,
Kevin
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* Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
2005-11-16 5:32 ` Kevin Hanson
@ 2005-11-16 5:37 ` LostSon
2005-11-16 6:05 ` Alexander Skwar
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From: LostSon @ 2005-11-16 5:37 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:32 pm, Kevin Hanson wrote:
hmm that is interesting so basically updating KDE would be much faster. Would
this hurt performance though as you are not re-compiling everything per se ??
> LostSon wrote:
> >Hello All
> > I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
> >What is this use flag used for, thanks.
>
> running 'euse -i kdexdeltas' tells me:
>
> "kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire
> new tarballs for every new release"
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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* Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
2005-11-16 4:55 [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas LostSon
2005-11-16 5:32 ` Kevin Hanson
@ 2005-11-16 6:03 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-16 19:24 ` znx
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From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-11-16 6:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
LostSon schrieb:
> Hello All
> I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
> What is this use flag used for, thanks.
alexander@blatt ~ $ euse -i kdexdeltas
global use flags (searching: kdexdeltas)
************************************************************
[- ] kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release
Alexander Skwar
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* Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
2005-11-16 5:37 ` LostSon
@ 2005-11-16 6:05 ` Alexander Skwar
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From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-11-16 6:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
LostSon schrieb:
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:32 pm, Kevin Hanson wrote:
> hmm that is interesting so basically updating KDE would be much faster.
No, it wouldn't. The opposite is true.
> Would
> this hurt performance
No.
> though as you are not re-compiling everything per se ??
No, that's wrong again. You're still compiling everything.
PS: Please don't top quote with full quotes. Makes reading
harder.
Alexander Skwar
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* Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
2005-11-16 4:55 [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas LostSon
2005-11-16 5:32 ` Kevin Hanson
2005-11-16 6:03 ` Alexander Skwar
@ 2005-11-16 19:24 ` znx
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From: znx @ 2005-11-16 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi,
This only saves you space in your distfiles directory. Instead of
having full tarballs for each release of KDE, you get the major
release and then all the minor fixes in "xdelta" packages.
z
On 16/11/05, LostSon <lostson@lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> Hello All
> I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
> What is this use flag used for, thanks.
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> LostSon
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