Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-16 Thread znx 
Hi,

This only saves you space in your distfiles directory. Instead of
having full tarballs for each release of KDE, you get the major
release and then all the minor fixes in xdelta packages.

z

On 16/11/05, LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello All
  I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
 What is this use flag used for, thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Hanson 

LostSon wrote:

Hello All 
I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas. 
What is this use flag used for, thanks.
 


running 'euse -i kdexdeltas' tells me:

kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire 
new tarballs for every new release


Cheers,
Kevin
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-15 Thread LostSon 
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:32 pm, Kevin Hanson wrote:
 hmm that is interesting so basically updating KDE would be much faster. Would 
this hurt performance though as you are not re-compiling everything per se ??

 LostSon wrote:
 Hello All
  I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas.
 What is this use flag used for, thanks.

 running 'euse -i kdexdeltas' tells me:

 kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire
 new tarballs for every new release

 Cheers,
 Kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-15 Thread Alexander Skwar 
LostSon schrieb:
 Hello All 
  I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas. 
 What is this use flag used for, thanks.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ euse -i kdexdeltas
global use flags (searching: kdexdeltas)

[-] kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire 
new tarballs for every new release

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-15 Thread Alexander Skwar 
LostSon schrieb:
 On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:32 pm, Kevin Hanson wrote:
  hmm that is interesting so basically updating KDE would be much faster.

No, it wouldn't. The opposite is true.

 Would 
 this hurt performance 

No.

 though as you are not re-compiling everything per se ??

No, that's wrong again. You're still compiling everything.

PS: Please don't top quote with full quotes. Makes reading
harder.

Alexander Skwar
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