From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 5 18:57:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09297 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09276 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA25417; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:25:27 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807060155.LAA25417@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dannyman cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Atipa , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 17:45:58 EST." <19980703174558.C6665@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:25:26 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It might be irritating to have a directory on one's system containing 30,000 > files, or even 1500 files ... especially if you're the FTP server distrbuting > the files in question ... we do imagine a day when FreeBSD has really taken > off and the ports collection has grown to an awesome, scarey size, and we've > planned for it to scale happily, ya? :) Well, 1500 files isn't too bad... 30000 would suck :) > A DB would still be nice. "Multiple categories" could be kludged into the fs > with symlinks. :) Yeah, but you could do that with the old system! > Of course, with a DB interface, there's no compelling reason to keep several > hundred tarballs on your system in the first place. ;) Hrmm.. true.. But doing it my way would make the DB less vulnerable to being toasted.. Acatully Satoshi had a point when he said changing it would make life hellish for commiters :-/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message