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On 01/20/2011 01:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced |
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> distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some |
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> people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is |
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> to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on |
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> dev.g.o. Please don't do this. |
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As one of those under the impression that mirror://gentoo was the right |
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choice: why is it bad? |
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From Fauli's post I gather the emacs team wanted to support ancient |
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versions and have all files necessary to install an ebuild whatsoever |
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it's age. |
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In my case, that would mean installing php-4.0, for example. Why on |
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earth should I support something like that? If I'm PHP upstream, okay, |
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maybe allow others to see the evolution of the language. But the |
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evolution of the php patchset? Sounds not that necessary to me. |
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So, I'm not opposed to your idea. If ya want to archive your stuff |
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forever, by all means do it. I just see no point in forcing this on all |
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devs. So, care to explain or give me pointer on why this is necessary? |
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Thanks, Matti |
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