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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:19:32 +0200 as |
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> Ulrich Mueller schrieb: |
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>> Currently RESTRICT=mirror and RESTRICT=bindist are independent of each |
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>> other. I wonder if the former should imply the latter. |
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>> Is there any package where the files in SRC_URI cannot be mirrored |
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>> (i.e., redistributed), but where the built package can be distributed? |
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> I vaguely remember some cases of large proprietary packages which were |
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> legal to redistribute, but we did not want them on Gentoo mirrors. After |
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> all, the description according to ebuild(5) does not contain a reference |
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> to what you can or cannot do: |
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> mirror |
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> files in SRC_URI will not be downloaded from the GENTOO_MIRRORS. |
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IIRC, one case was several gigs of data-files for some game or other. It |
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was legal to redistribute, but several gigs of files was thought too much |
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for the mirrors, for a single game only a small fraction of gentoo users |
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would be interested in. Additionally, the game data wasn't likely to |
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change as development had long since ceased, so it tended to be a one- |
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time download, meaning even users that used it would probably only do so |
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once. |
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It's quite possible that some bit of that is incorrect, however. Perhaps |
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someone from games can confirm/correct as necessary. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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