HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS.

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 14 17:51:45 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:44:24AM +0100, Benjamin Lutz wrote:

> Thinking about it, keeping the INDEX up to date should be trivial.

Not really.

> INDEX 
> only gets updated when a port is changed, and only those lines affected 
> by that port can be changed in the INDEX. Of course, you might now say 
> that the bloat will be the same, it'll just be distributed into much 
> smaller parts.

The bloat would be much, much more.  Changes to INDEXes do not usually
affect just one port.

Kris
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