Re: distributing sources

I think that cvsup would be even better :)

Tom Veldhouse

Pieter Breed wrote:

>hi
>
>Gentoo is 'n source-based distro right?  So.  Howcome gentoo distributes its 
>packages within tarballs?  Doesn't that work counterintuitively?  I mean.  
>Wouldn't you get 'n further bandwidth saving if you used "cvs co" to do the 
>initial emerge and then "cvs up"'s to do upgrades?  Now I know that emerge 
>doesn't have support for cvs yet, but this I would think would be taking 
>bandwidth savings (which was AFAIK one of the plusses of source-based 
>distro's) to the next leel..
>
>:)
>
>anyway.  Jy my 2 cent suggestion
>
>pieter
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