I tried to emerge mtree the other day and was suprised to see that not only it downloads the entire pkgsrc archive (understandable) but also unpacks the whole thing (which is more than 500 MB, where I stopped it). This is not really a bug but very inefficient, when a small change to the ebuild can make sure only the relevant parts of the archive are unpacked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mtree 2. 3.
Created attachment 191744 [details] Updated ebuild optimized for extracting mtree
Created attachment 199916 [details, diff] diff between the original ebuild and the optimized ebuild No one is maintaining this? It's such a small diff (see attachment) http://assaf-tech.blogspot.com/2009/05/other-day-i-thought-it-would-be.html
Latest mtree tarballs are very small.
