Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
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. > -- > LostSon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
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 Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
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 -- LostSon http://.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===~-._ (___) \___/ I Want To Believe pgp1JFZfuz3B3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kdexdeltas
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
