Date: 14 Feb 2000 00:57:49 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <vqcln4oi2k2.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Richard Wackerbarth's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 22:20:58 -0600" References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <00021221204202.02429@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000212194442.B43572@dragon.nuxi.com> <00021222301300.02765@nomad.dataplex.net>
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* From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
* I didn't suggest that you do so!
* I suggested that doing so be a part of the distribution system.
That's certainly an interesting idea, but what exactly is the problem
you're trying to solve? This is my take of the situation.
(1) Users who don't have enough disk space to keep the entire
/usr/ports can use packages. (The distfiles and space required to
compile some of the ports are far more than the entire ports tree
anyway -- it doesn't make sense to complain that the ports tree is
too big if you have enough space to compile stuff yourself.)
There is also the portcheckout script that can be improved to use
cvsup or something to work without a local repository.
(2) Users who don't have enough disk space to keep the CVS repository
can use cvsup in checkout mode. Granted it doesn't work without a
network connection but you can't fetch distfiles without the
network either.
(3) There's always cvsweb for people who are interested in past
versions.
(4) We recognize that the current organization is suboptimal in terms
of cvs operations (i.e., too much directories), we will fix that
soon.
It seems to me that your proposed solution only helps a small minority
of people for a fairly large cost in implementation and running.
-PW
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