On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Gerion Entrup <gerion.ent...@flump.de> wrote: > - The size of the tree reduces. >
If this is a big concern you may be able to mount the portage tree under a compressed loopback filesystem. It may even be worth considering that as a recommended-by-handbook default as the benefit for compressing the ebuilds is likely huge anyway. Cheers, R0b0t1