On 11/30/2012 12:30 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > How about we not change the docs until someone eagerly implements all > the stuff you just said? > > Note that from an infra POV our existing system works fairly well and > requires no day-to-day tinkering. > I'm always happy to consider new options, but work needs to put in to > make it feasible. I'm sure if we switched to http with zsync or > something, we could make it feasible. I want to see a prototype, etc. > > -A
The initial suggestion was to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial portage snapshot, which requires no code changes. A suggestion was made in response was that we should take this a step further by using emerge-webrsync for everything. I feel that the code needs improvements before it can formally replace `emerge --sync` as our recommended way of updating the tree. Others seem to agree. That does not impact our ability to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot in the handbook, which is my original suggestion.
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