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From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Feature request:  Store dist file size somewhere
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:36:36PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>  * Is files/md5 the best place to put it?  I was thinking something like
>  * files/size, which would either be
>  * 
>  *    1.  The total size of all the distfiles that make up the port, or
>  * 
>  *    2.  The size of all the distfiles (distfile\tsize or similar)
>  * 
>  * That way you don't need to do anything to md5(1).
> 
> Err, before Richard has a heart attack.  files/md5 *is* the right
> place to put these stuff.  If we add another file, that's 3,000 more
> small files, meaning 3,000 more i-nodes and 3,000 more disk fragments
> in the ports tree.

Ah, of course.  

N
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