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Re: [PLUG] Re: why Gentoo
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On Mon, July 18, 2005 7:52 pm, Pat Regan wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that some theoretical discussion from a few
> messages up the thread was possibly actually how Gentoo worked. Here is
> the impression I had...
>
> Say you build package foo-1.2.3. Next week foo-1.2.4 is released.
> Instead of downloading a new tarball, Gentoo would apply the diff to
> your already built source directory. Odds are only a few source files
> may have been touched, so there may have been not much more to do than
> relink the application.
>
> This would have been quite cool even if it would be very space
> inefficient. That is why I mentioned those three packages I built from
> source, to demonstrate how much space I figured that would have taken.
>
> Pat
>
No, Gentoo does not do that. If 1.2.4 comes out, it will recompile it,
remove the old files, add the new ones, and diff the configuration files
(merging the trivial things and letting you decide what to do with the
actual things that changed).
In the end you do save space with gentoo, since you will not install a lot
of crap that comes with a package (gnome/kde support, X support, ldap
support etc) unless you really want it.
- -Cos
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