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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:15:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists?
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On Jan 22, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:04:31 +0100
> Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> wrote:
>
>> Of course I like static plists too (because of grepping), but I am
>> concerned about the CVS churn those massive changes will cause. If
>> everyone is fine with massive pkg-plist diffs and the associated load 
>> on
>> CVS and CVSup servers then go ahead, as I said, for me, size is no
>> problem and storage is cheap.
>
> Does someone know how often this happens for the large plists we have?
> What's the ratio of the size with and without taking the plists into
> account for ... lets say a weekly and a daily cvsup/portsnap run?

And even still there is always the "*default compress" line for cvsup
which helps a good bit.

Michael
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