On Fri, 30 May 2008 14:53:33 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I don't understand why paludis provides the dotar+* as separate > files, as they are all the same... they can be symbolic links to one > file.
Because autotools is a heap of shit and tries very hard to stop you from using symlinks because they're 'unportable', and because Portage is a heap of shit and can't handle hardlinks... > 2. Also it is not clear to me why local syncer cannot be placed > in /etc/paludis, or at least at /usr/local/, I may miss something, > but I did not find any configuration location to specify this path. /usr/share/paludis/syncers/ > 4. Does anybody know why tarsync is not used in paludis? It is much > quicker to use it instead of extracting the tarball and removing > files. Because we hate local root holes. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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