Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:25:26 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme Message-ID: <199807060155.LAA25417@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 17:45:58 EST." <19980703174558.C6665@enteract.com>
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> 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
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