Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 21:07:34 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg Message-ID: <20140807210734.221966e4@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20140807171815.GV17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <53e0f0ad.5847.5faaa40c@svn.freebsd.org> <15D20738-E215-4F78-A9CC-5A635D488498@adamw.org> <20140806053647.GL17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <7D423316-97A3-44B5-A427-4027EF61FACE@adamw.org> <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20140807171815.GV17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:18:15 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:05:01PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:50:49 -0400 Adam Weinberger wrote: >>> On 6 Aug, 2014, at 1:36, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:=20 >>>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>>>> On 5 Aug, 2014, at 10:56, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>>> - Directories can be listed in the plist like files they will be >>>>>> considered like @dirrmtry >>>>>=20 >>>>> That one is exciting! Do they still need to appear in the same way >>>>> (i.e. at the end of the plist, in reverse-order)? >>>>=20 >>>> pkg never had this limitation :) >>>=20 >>> I am constantly amazed at the tremendous progress that pkgng has >>> achieved. The problem is, a lot of these improvements aren=E2=80=99t do= cumented >>> anywhere, so it=E2=80=99s hard to know what new paradigms we have at our >>> disposal! >>>=20 >>> Although I suppose that until pkg_install is fully deprecated (< 1 >>> month now, yay!), it=E2=80=99s best that we not go crazy with incompati= ble >>> plist changes. >>=20 >> We should probably have a discussion in September about what to do >> with the newly acquired freedom. For instance, there are way too many >> tiny files in the ports tree that slow down subversion operations and >> take up way too much disk space (smallest file size on default FreeBSD >> install these days is 4KiB). I think we should move distinfo into the >> Makefile, combine all pkg-* files into one Pkgfile (using ucl syntax >> maybe?) and combine patches per feature instead of one patch per file. >> I'd like to get rid of the files directory too, at least in most cases. >=20 > That discussion needs to happen now. I was thinking that maybe we could wait until everybody is back from vacation. > I'll collect the idea after my return from vacations :) >=20 > What I have in mind and is going to happen: > - remove of @exec If this means there'll be a lot of tiny pkg-install files then I would oppose this. Just to give some stats (default FreeBSD installation): /usr/ports% du -k -d 0 . 1525248 . /usr/ports% du -Ak -d 0 . 670241 . This means that only about 44% of the disk space taken up by a subversion checkout is actual content.
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