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On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:21 -0500, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Greetings! |
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> |
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> The RESTRICT="nomirror" flag should only be used in the case where it is |
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> illegal for Gentoo to redistribute a package via our mirror network |
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> (such as commercial packages). There should be very few exceptions to |
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> this rule-of-thumb. |
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> |
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> Keep in mind that anytime you set this flag on a package, people who |
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> rely on a distfile mirror as their only source of Gentoo packages will |
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> not get the package. This is common in many cases where Gentoo is being |
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> used inside a private network that utilizes a local distfile mirror on |
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> the inside of that network. |
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> |
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> If you have this flag set on any ebuild and we can legally distribute |
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> that package, please remove that restriction. |
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I'm going to also assume that we are still following the "if it has its |
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own mirror, is commercial, or is extremely large (200+MB)" that we |
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nomirror it, correct? |
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I mean... There's about 10 Quake3 mods that weigh in at over 400-500MB a |
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piece that are non-commercial and free to redistribute, but we nomirror |
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every last one of them. |
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-- |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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