Re: [gentoo-user] a question about updating process

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 29/07/2014 12:52, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> well chromium was just an example. I just think that when there is a
> version upgrade, a patch should be enough.
> I have read that portage is migrating to git, but I guess I got it
> wrong, because I thought that the source codes will be maintained using
> git too.
> However why not? why not use git for source maintenance too?

The tree will OneDayRealSoonNow(TM)IPromise[1] be hosted in git.

Source tarballs? No. They belong to upstream and gentoo will do as
gentoo always has - follow upstream.

The downsides to running gentoo are

1. Lots of compiling
2. Lots of downloading

There is nothing we can do to reduce these downsides - that is the price
of the amazing flexibility from USE.

If you can't afford the downloads, you must switch to another distro, or
use a proxy. But it's not something Gentoo can solve



[1] Excuse the sarcasm, it's a gentoo in-joke how long this is taking
(or if it will ever be complete at all)



> 
> regards.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk
> <mailto:neil@digimed.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:38:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> 
>     > I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download
>     > about 200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files, not binary
>     > executable. However I wanted to know that if a new version of chromium
>     > comes out, an update will download another 200 Mb or just a diff files
>     > to patch the altered files ? (I am a new user and I have not
>     > experienced that situation!)
> 
>     It will download the source for the new version, which is generally a
>     separate tarball, so another 200MB. That's how Gentoo works, with very
>     few exceptions that source is downloaded and compiled.
> 
>     If you want to avoid the large download and lengthy compile time of
>     chromium, use www-client/google-chrome instead, this is the pre-compiled
>     binary from Google.
> 
> 
>     --
>     Neil Bothwick
> 
>     EMail - garbage at the speed of light.
> 
> 


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