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I think it's best to let the user decide what he wants to download. |
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That really *is* the point of pointing people to the mirrors, directly. |
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I think that you are right mr.Gianelloni, give the user the choice is the best way :) |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] A stage* and distfile download script instead of links |
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> From: wolf31o2@g.o |
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> To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o |
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:12:18 -0800 |
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> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:57 -0600, John Alberts wrote: |
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> > I think it's a good idea too. Just a small script called 'getsources' |
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> > or something that gets a stage tarball and portage snapshot. |
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> Alright, since people seem hung up on this idea. Which stage tarball? |
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> Regular? uclibc? Hardened? What will you use to determine which version |
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> to even get? The CD itself really has nothing on it to identify the |
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> version, so how will your script know where to go? |
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> See, computers are good at dumb, repetitive tasks. They tend to suck |
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> hard on anything that requires even the slightest amount of grey matter. |
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> I think it's best to let the user decide what he wants to download. |
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> That really *is* the point of pointing people to the mirrors, directly. |
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> Chris Gianelloni |
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> Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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> Games Developer |
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