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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:57 -0600, John Alberts wrote: |
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>> I think it's a good idea too. Just a small script called 'getsources' |
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>> or something that gets a stage tarball and portage snapshot. |
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> Alright, since people seem hung up on this idea. Which stage tarball? |
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> Regular? uclibc? Hardened? What will you use to determine which version |
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> to even get? The CD itself really has nothing on it to identify the |
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> version, so how will your script know where to go? |
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> See, computers are good at dumb, repetitive tasks. They tend to suck |
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> hard on anything that requires even the slightest amount of grey matter. |
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> I think it's best to let the user decide what he wants to download. |
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> That really *is* the point of pointing people to the mirrors, directly. |
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To add to Chris comments and from what mirror? It might seem a minor |
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question for someone on the US or even on a few EU countries, but in |
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some parts of the world, the mirror can have a huge impact on speed or |
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the internet bill. |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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