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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] SRC_URI behaviour
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:50:47
Message-Id: 51BC7120.9070301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] SRC_URI behaviour by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 On 06/15/2013 02:34 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
2 > 15.06.2013 18:50, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет:
3 >> Over my dead CVS access.
4 > Any reasonable/argumented objection?
5
6 to put in different words:
7
8 We do not want to use untraceable/transient/ephemeral sources for main
9 ebuilds, live ebuilds are corner cases. Ruby related stuff had it worst
10 regarding mis-packaging and total reliance on git with horrid stories
11 they might tell you later over a large coffee.
12
13 > And, anyway, quoted part is optional behaviour that should just make
14 > ebuild-writing easy.
15 > Mandatory part is to be able to have restrict://foo.bar and downloadable
16 > things at the same time.
17
18 In fact the restrict part got some proposals and not a terse and stern
19 reject.
20
21 lu