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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:30:17 +0100
From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources/contrib
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hello

>
> Maybe we could fix swap instead so people could actually build stuff
> without crashing their kernels?
>

8c gets killed nicely when going out of ram, the system is still running :)

> (Now that we have python we could use hg... although I fail to quite
> see the issue with plain tarballs)
>

The problem with big packages is always the same, downloading the whole
thing to get something tiny updated is a waste of resources.

isn't this why replica was born?

slds.

gabi