Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:38:00 +0100 | From | Ian Molton <> | Subject | Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre... |
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Olivier Galibert Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:
> > I shouldnt. its a pointless waste of bandwidth. > > > > Now, whats YOUR answer? > > Developpers need complete sources. No questions about that. If they > don't have the complete sources, they'll fuck things up. So the > developpers have zero use for partial downloadings.
Sorry, that doesnt fly. If I dont work on SCSI, only on networking, I /dont/ need the SCSI code. Even if I had it, I wouldnt read it.
I deleted all the arch directories except ARM and X86 on my machine to speed up grepping the kernel.
so, not having all the source can speed thigs up.
> Some users may like to be able to download only the core code and > drivers/filesystems/architectures they use.
This developer would too.
> Ignoring the obvious > version drift problems that will happen,
Why would they happen?
> proposing such a service > requires work and a large amount of bandwidth. Do you volunteer?
Surely it requires LESS bandwidth than if people are sucking the WHOLE kernel ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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