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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:21:35
Message-Id: uwnhzjcd7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13 by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 >>>>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Robin H Johnson wrote:
2
3 > "just repackage it"
4 > - Is that in line with the licenses of ALL of distfiles?
5
6 Do I understand this correctly: Some Go packages are non-free, and their
7 license doesn't even allow distributing them alongside other packages?
8 That's scary.
9
10 > - If the combined gentoo-specific distfile is 100MB per $PV, you're
11 > now forcing 100MB of new downloads for each version.
12
13 But this is how it works for every other package. If upstream makes a
14 one-line bug fix and cuts a new release, then the distfile needs to be
15 refetched, no matter how large it is.
16
17 Ulrich

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