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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:05:59 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make index
Message-ID:  <20010910090559.B41954@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010910034814.S30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
References:  <20010909220914.A64609@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20010909202253.A29219@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010910034814.S30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu>

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:48:14AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:22:53PM -0700, Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) wrote:
> > Yes..think of the repo bloat.
> 
> Not to mention, normally Satoshi does these updates in sync with
> the latest package set that hits the ftp mirrors.
> 

Ah, I didn't know it was created in sync with packages.  I wasn't 
talking about doing this nightly though, just on a regular schedule, 
but that seems moot since its in sync with some other process
 
 
> .. and the repo bloat would be in tens of thousands of lines
> after just a few days... and perhaps in the millions of lines
> after a year or two.  There's just too many ports to do this.
> 
> -- 
> wca

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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