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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:57:00 -0400 Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@g.o> |
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| Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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| > We were talking about this on IRC due to the growing concern over |
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| > patches and other files in ${FILESDIR} in the portage tree. This is |
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| > basically the idea that we came up with to resolve the problem. |
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| Why do we need a separate location for patches? How are they |
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| fundamentally different from the sources in distfiles? |
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distfiles take eight hours to get mirrored. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |