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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:06:33AM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 23:38, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > Just use RESTRICT=nomirror when the file is massive (many hundreds of |
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> > megabytes) or we're legally prohibited from redistributing it. |
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> Why only then? It really sucks from user perspective going through the |
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> list of Gentoo mirrors, finding nothing, when you could fetch directly from a |
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> sourceforge mirror. |
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So do GENTOO_MIRRORS="" emerge appname. |
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When somebody's running a local mirror, they don't want to have the |
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users who're supposed to be fetching from the local mirror having to |
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fetch from outside every time there's a package from sourceforge or |
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whereever else. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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