On Wed Nov 25 17:34:12 EST 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > 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.
replica still makes a lot of sense to me. if i just splat a tar file on top of my source, i have no idea what changed and when; history is useless. replica to and from sources takes just a few seconds for the packages i'm using. then again, i don't packages i'm not willing to debug, like openssl, on plan 9. - erik
