Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Support PROPERTIES="live".
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:11:15
Message-Id: w6g5znlujl4.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Support PROPERTIES="live". by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 2019-07-28 at 17:21 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
4 >> There could be another subset of packages that aren't quite "live" but
5 >> they need to fetch something that's immutable which can't be fetched via
6 >> a protocol supported by SRC_URI. Maybe call it
7 >> PROPERTIES="src-fetch-immutable" or something.
8
9 > Could you name one of those packages, and explain how are they not
10 > 'live' if they skip checksum verification? I'm really against adding
11 > hundreds of weird-named items for the sake of potential use cases
12 > without a real benefit to it.
13
14 +1

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