[gentoo-user] kdexdeltas

2005-11-15 Thread LostSon
Hello All I was looking at some things tonight and noticed the use flag kdexdeltas. What is this use flag used for, thanks. -- LostSon http://.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===~-._ (___)

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"

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

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) [-

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, tha

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 a