Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

On 1/20/11 1:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is
> reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use
> the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these.
> This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if
> the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs
> team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before.

Storing distfiles in public_html is not a perfect solution either. If
the developer retires, what do we do with the files?