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On 08/18/2011 05:53 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> Il giorno gio, 18/08/2011 alle 05.46 -0400, Anthony G. Basile ha |
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> scritto: |
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>> What alternative are you proposing to mirror://gentoo/ if upstream |
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>> doesn't provide a tarball, eg with large patchsets the maintainer |
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>> constructs? Anticipating your answer might be "keep them in your dev |
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>> space", then what would be the deprecation policy for distfiles that |
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>> are |
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>> no longer used by ebuilds? If foresee a tension between keeping all |
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>> the |
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>> distfiles vs disk space, although Patrick's point of cheap hardware is |
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>> well taken. |
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> Keep it in your dev space. As I said, the resources argument is only |
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> available for infra to complain about, and since last I knew from them |
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> was that it was not a problem right now... |
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Understood that infra gets to complain, but that still doesn't tell me |
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what the deprecation policy is. Keep all my large patchsets |
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indefinitely? Or remove them when an ebuild no longer needs them? Or 1 |
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year after an ebuild no longer needs them? |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |
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