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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy/thoughts for ebuilds that survive only because of mirror caches?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:43:35
Message-Id: 20031231174336.4228310c.weeve@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Policy/thoughts for ebuilds that survive only because of mirror caches? by Michael Cummings
1 On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:10:31 -0500
2 Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > So I guess my question is, what's the take on this? Should we be only
5 > providing ebuilds that point to src's that still work outside of our
6 > cacheing system?
7
8 There is at least one package (x11-misc/afbinit) we cannot take this
9 stance for as it has no home page, but is needed for certain sparc64
10 machines with a particular video card to work.
11
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13 Jason Wever
14 Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead

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