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On Friday 01 October 2004 11:59, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> When testing for http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56998 I found |
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> out that a few of the patches that ghostscript uses were simply |
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> compressed with bzip2 or gzip. |
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> |
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> I remember a call from someone on the list, urging everyone to get rid |
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> of files in files/ that are greater than 10K, and *not* to do it by |
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> compressing the files. I am absolutely sure that those patches were |
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> plain text at least when ghostscript-7.07.1-r3 was the most current |
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> version. |
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> |
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> There was also an idea to not allow binary files in $PORTDIR at all. Is |
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> there an official statement on the matter? I was off the list for |
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> almost two months. |
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Binary files should indeed be avoided in the tree. Those patches should be |
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provided in SRC_URI. The files dir is mainly for allmost trivial patches |
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that making available through the distfiles mirrors is more effort than |
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is waranted. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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