Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0500 Chris Gianelloni ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| Interesting, yes... but ebuilds are read by humans and it is necessary >| to be comprehensible a lot more than the Manifest files are. > >Sure. But the comparison would show whether or not it's going to make a >substantial difference. And if it does, there're other things that can >be done in the Manifest file that'll save a whole load of space too >(e.g. using $ to represent $PN, ! to represent files/, * to represent >ChangeLog and so on, since these characters aren't allowed in any >filename in the tree). > > > When you have thousands of small files (1-4 blocks), the space saved by removing all unnecessary whitespaces is minimal at best. Minimizing the number of files is another story. Unifying manifests with digest files will save a considerably amount of disk space.
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