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>>>>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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> "just repackage it" |
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> - Is that in line with the licenses of ALL of distfiles? |
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Do I understand this correctly: Some Go packages are non-free, and their |
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license doesn't even allow distributing them alongside other packages? |
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That's scary. |
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> - If the combined gentoo-specific distfile is 100MB per $PV, you're |
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> now forcing 100MB of new downloads for each version. |
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But this is how it works for every other package. If upstream makes a |
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one-line bug fix and cuts a new release, then the distfile needs to be |
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refetched, no matter how large it is. |
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Ulrich |