Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx2c4@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:24:50
Message-Id: CAHmME9o8mudapvRXZDKiG23Q4nEbNfmu7FkjP+8A3Wz-P9SXAg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree? by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 > Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file?
3
4 I think we should not. Even if you can open it in a text editor, you
5 can't "read" it or interact with it in the same way that you can a
6 text-based patch. For that reason, big size or small size, it still in
7 essence falls under the 'binary file' criteria and thus should not be
8 permitted.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree? "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree? James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>