Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 19:50:21 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2) Message-ID: <20141102195021.045f70c3@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20141102181623.463fff71@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20141031185621.GC15967@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20141101000723.782768a3@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20141102181623.463fff71@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:16:23 +0000 RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 00:07:23 +0100 > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:56:21 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin >> <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files >>> files convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can >>> reduce the size of the while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply >>> merging them into one of the other files (Makefile and/or >>> pkg-plist) from my testing it really devides significantly the size >>> of the tree. >>> >>> Problem is how to merge them if we want to. >>> >>> What we do not want to loose: >>> - Easyness of parsing distinfo >>> - Easyness to get informations about the description > > I think it's worth remembering that this saves an amount of storage > that can be had for around 1 penny/cent. The threshold for this being > more trouble than it's worth is pretty low. The reason I looked into this is because many subversion operations are slow on the ports tree. For me it's about saving time there and not so much about saving disk space.
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