Markus Ullmann wrote: > This was one of the big reasons. They (and we maybe as well) have people > there with 56k/64k dialup connections. Checking out the whole thing > would take ages.
I can confirm we have people with 56k dial up :-) Checking out portage every day for a developer on 56k takes already a lot of time using cvs. If I had to check out the whole history every day I'd never become a gentoo developer. > And the last thing was the idea about distribution. There is one > "centrally" maintained tree and people commit to it all day. So the > chance of getting conflicts in pushes if one is on tour for three days > would be very likely and so the distributed part of the VCs wouldn't be > helpful. I agree. -- Sandro (sanchan) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
