-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate > (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. > > For example: KDE. > Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). > Others are very interested in it. > > If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main > tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from > the mirrors.
I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. I maintain a separate part (different from KDE) of the tree and I simply just avoid doing "cd kde-*" when I'm doing stuff in the tree (I simply just forget it is there) :-) In the rare case that my actions require that I actually look at kde stuff, then it would be a pain in the ass if I had to get it from somewhere else, and not have it right at hand. The above of course only holds if the tree is structured in a good way, which I think it is (to a large degree, one can always find special cases). And an argument along the lines of "the tree is too large to download" does not apply either. If one cannot sync the tree over his/hers internet connection, then one can clearly not download gcc either :-) Martin R. Ehmsen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4wQloCiIG96jYfYRAh4iAKDVA9HYS1oSDj8hgvH9kvQBMbBbpACdFIAH 2ypo9/R5xGLzC6D1dIMjM4Q= =ROAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
