[gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree?

[Ulrich Mueller]

When rewriting the script scanning for binary files in the Portage
tree [1], I noticed that there are some 25 XPM and SVG image files,
with sizes up to 13 kB.

For the time being, I've added exceptions for MIME types image/svg+xml
and image/x-xpmi [2], but I think it would be better to clarify our
policy on this. The devmanual currently says:

| Things that do not belong in the tree:
| * Large patches
| * Non-text files
| * Photos of teletubbies
| * Files whose name starts with a dot

Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file?

Ulrich

[1] http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/find-binary-files.txt
[2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/qa-scripts.git;a=blob;f=find-binary-files.sh;hb=HEAD