Jay Dolan [2006-01-03 06:55]:
--- Jukka Heino <jukka@karsikkopuu.net> wrote:
Maybe you need to buy a new hard drive if a 20 megabyte port tree is too "fat" for you? NetBSD pkgsrc tree in comparison takes up about 250 megabytes uncompressed. Now that's what I'd call fat.
While O's tone was rather crass, he does bring up an somewhat valid point when considering /checking out/ large httpup repositories. I'd be curious to see how much time could be saved nabbing, say, Han's repository with .footprint.gz's. I think any changes required in pkgutils would be rather minimal. Thoughts?
I've thought about gzipping large .footprints before, for the reason you mentioned. I do view them all the time, but a decent editor can gunzip them transparently anyway. Regards, Tilman -- GnuPG key available at http://code-monkey.de/files/tsauerbeck-public-key.asc