On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:07 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > that performance is only for one case. what about the > case where i'd like to know if a local file differs from sources?
Then use replica for that. But replica is just too slow to be a useful for package management. It's not great that it takes longer to get the openssl package than it takes to do a full ubuntu install. > (i suggest contrib/diff as an addition to contrib.) that's > really slow and annoying with a tar file. I don't see that. I would be willing to bet (I'll try it at some point) that it is far faster to pull a tar down, mount it via tarfs, and run replica/pull agains that than what we do now. Were we to do this we'd have two ways to use replica. That said, I'm sufficiently impressed with the tinycore tar-based package management that I don't see the need for replica any more. > also, there's no reason replica can't work in parallel. As always, there's no reason lots of things can't be done. They just aren't :-) ron
