Zac Medico wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800 >> Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to >>>> keep track of and store junk under version control. >>> I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I >>> said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule. >> If you start encouraging this approach, are you prepared to make >> Portage warn extremely noisily if a repository-provided (as opposed to >> user generated) cache entry is found to be stale? > > Sure. Otherwise, it's confusing for the user when dependency > calculations take longer than usual for no apparent reason. >
It would probably be useful to provide a central rsync infra for overlays where overlay maintainers could subscribe their overlays to and the machine would pull in their VCS and generate the metadata for them. Regards, Petteri
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