From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 14:34:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AB25D1 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 14:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022AB7D1 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 14:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id q56so4341984wes.23 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 07:34:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=D2Xq8t10d1MOt9rMsWkmEiJ/C1zPxXWxPldVCcLSAEc=; b=qEY3hMSaYQtaNKKbb4eDJCgjQL5ow/wxkWPdJMiBXqqWWwXLC5c8n1ub5kY8xq+jbH iaHTqahz2wBxiBEppOHO4vCAABQPluzqCqhdhmoWnV3DA458ZCwY+for1rS8XsEL9lzA fSEcW1lMkjaFz93H3AMFgAdVSnOuQvVrwmgPAGZva1ANGSzOyLQDA2korXCuExeqVXiu iL0+nko57nOt6nmB00gXM95vUIIxkpItpGzCt0jT1vW7SyollYBYl/QWg/QoxRiI3ijV Y2blwN66IDVJrAuTfOohzu45+XuymO9HLE40ZC850d+rU/aTj/PNT25cRAKh+ZQZkB1v i9hQ== X-Received: by 10.180.198.80 with SMTP id ja16mr8517146wic.53.1369665283074; Mon, 27 May 2013 07:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fz8sm17883562wib.2.2013.05.27.07.34.41 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 27 May 2013 07:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:34:40 +0100 From: RW To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <20130527153440.020ab20e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <444ndofstn.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <20130527140609.3d3b9d23@gumby.homeunix.com> <444ndofstn.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:34:45 -0000 On Mon, 27 May 2013 09:36:20 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > RW writes: > > I prefer it the way it is; those patch files are cached in the > > distfiles directory, so only new patches need be downloaded. I can't > > say I've ever noticed it being slow. If you roll them up into one > > file the whole thing needs to be download every time a patch is > > added. If you combine a tarball with individual newer patch, it's > > no better than the current situation with caching. > > There's plenty of middle ground. Re-rolling the tarball every time a > new patch is added would definitely be worse than the current > situation, but rolling lots of long-standing patches into a > much-smaller number of collective downloads would be an improvement > for some people without hurting anyone else. It would hurt people with a slow connections who would end-up having to download most of the patches twice. I've a lot more sympathy with people in that situation than with someone who doesn't cache and then complains it's slow. It wouldn't matter if this were KDE4, but VIM is the kind of port that's likely to be present on a minimalist install.