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Hi, |
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On 2019/10/22 10:43, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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>> I also agree with others that it used to be easy to get distfiles as |
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>> and when needed, so an alternative structure could mirror that of the |
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>> portage tree itself, in other words "cat/pkg/distfile". |
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> Not a good idea, because some distfiles are shared between packages. |
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> For example, sys-kernel/*-sources use the same distfiles. (It won't |
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> work with categories either, e.g., there are dev-lang/ruby and |
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> app-emacs/ruby-mode.) |
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> Ulrich |
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You are absolutely correct. I then fully agree with current implementation. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Jaco |
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