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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:51:27 -0700 (PDT) |
The probram ("problematic program" (intentionally so, in this case))
"GNU hello" comes to mind here.
-t
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
>
>
> Aaron:
> > The problem I'm trying to solve is repeated downloads of the
> > same data.
>
>
> I hope to analyze and reply in depth to your message later but that
> leapt out at me.
>
> I see no reason to modify arch in the slightest little bit to solve
> *that* problem. Surely it can be solved more cleanly with proxies.
> In many or most cases, simply using the existing mirror functionality
> more carefully is sufficient. It is strange, imo, to contemplate
> modifying tla to solve the problem you stated there.
>
> A "smart cache" in arch would, as a side effect, very likely anyway,
> eliminate the need for an external solution (while accomplishing much
> else besides). But that is just a happy accident, I think --- and one
> that we could useful give up on if it were convenient to do so.
>
> The way to build a "smart cache" is top-down, not bottom up.
> Meanwhile, tla shouldn't have a built in "dumb cache" when it so easy
> to construct one externally to tla.
>
>
> -t
>
>
>
- [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Aaron Bentley, 2004/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Aaron Bentley, 2004/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Aaron Bentley, 2004/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Andrew Suffield, 2004/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/16
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