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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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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Games Developer |