Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 25.04.2008 11:09, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Ven 25 avril 2008 10:47, Jakub Jelinek a écrit :
>
>> Remember many people mirror the whole Everything tree to do
>> local installs etc.
> That just means we need more granular repositories, with one
> repository devoted to big lumps of optional resources like game data,
> artwork (images/audio/video), artistic fonts, document templates,
> cliparts, etc
Just hardlinking the file between the different repos on the server
should IMHO solve most problems and avoids all the problems a separate
repo would bring.
I think the point was that people who have no need for it would be mirroring it
down to local repos. The disk storage space on servers is definitely a
consideration, but I don't think its the biggest issue with many large data
files like this; instead its the bandwidth they may incur for useless downloads
just because creating a local repo is easier than parsing out the files you want
and don't want.
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