On Monday 17 January 2005 19:23, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > Well, we only extract the necessary files from the tarballs each time. > > I guess there isn't a way to come up with some sort of portage hackery > whereby the portage tmpdir doesn't get cleaned out until the last of the > split ebuilds is merged? Reading this again, how would it be any better than splitting into lots of small tarballs and only unpacking the necessary ones? Very little would be unpacked more than once, so this is the better solution.
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