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Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> There's also quite a large amount of binary files still in the tree. A |
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> lot of them seem to be compressed patches. I'm not sure what should be |
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> done with those, but I thought putting binary files into the tree was |
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> discouraged unless absolutely necessary. Lots of 4k compressed patches |
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> doesn't seem to be something absolutely necessary. |
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Tying this to the Portage-tree collection-copyright issue, it might be a |
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good idea for all third-party-sourced patches, with e-mail headers or |
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other such authorship/source/copyright information still intact at the |
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start (and happily skipped by the patch command), to be gzipped and put |
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in distfiles, and the tree itself to be reserved for stuff written |
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specifically for the Gentoo project. |
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This does still leave large Gentoo-supplied patches in question; I'm |
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uncomfortable with the idea of us getting *that* far from the upstream |
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sources, though. |
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Anthony de Boer |
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