On 3/30/24 11:17 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote: > Yes that's a very good point, that was something I was wondering in > weighing up both sides, what the costs would be practically, as I don't > know the realities of running Gentoo infrastructure. And maybe the costs > is just too high of a price to pay. > > I wonder if increased use of git repos rather than distributed tarballs > could be part of a solution to those issues, although that could put quite > a storage burden on every user. Unless they were all shallow git pulls and > the user could optionally choose to tar up the git directory after clone > with compression. But yes granted then there is even more ebuild > complexity.
Live ebuilds cannot have keywords, so using git repos is not a valid option. There's not really much to discuss here. Recompressing all distfiles in gentoo-specific ways is... definitely a decision. It's a decision that Debian has made, mind you, so it's not like Gentoo would be breaking new ground here, but frankly I don't really regard that as fundamentally palatable. -- Eli Schwartz
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