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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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>Why not have the directory structure follow the package category |
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>structure? E.g. the distfiles for package foo/bar goes into the |
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>directory ${MIRROR_ROOT}/foo/bar? |
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>This should be easy enough to support in Portage, and if applied to |
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>the /usr/portage/distfiles directory too, would solve a few other |
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>problems. It also has the advantage of grouping the distfiles in a |
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>way that users would find natural to browse. |
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>There is the problem of what happens when a package moves, but I think |
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>that's easily solved too. |
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this has been discussed before. |
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summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way |
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you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors. |