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From: Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis@×××××.io>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:14:46
Message-Id: 2196207.DGP59d3zh1@hammer.magicstack.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB by R0b0t1
1 On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:44:26 PM EST R0b0t1 wrote:
2 > How easy is it to move patches to Gentoo infrastructure if the patches
3 > are not provided by upstream? I am slightly uncomfortable with
4 > everything being pushed to websites like GitHub by default.
5
6 How are patches different from other distfiles? Plenty of packages are
7 distributed from Github. It's the purpose of the mirror system to
8 remove the direct reliance on the original source.
9
10 Elvis