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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files? | ||
| Date: | Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:08:53 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20140813210845.3f2debdb@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files? by James |
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| 1 | On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:55:47 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Now that I'm looking, it looks like a policy decision for the devs |
| 4 | > to formally evaluate. /distfiles/ should not be a dir for garbage, |
| 5 | > one-off-files and other such nonsense. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | That's exactly what it is for. One-off files that the ebuild downloads, |
| 8 | uses and then no longer needs. Nothing in $DISTDIR is needed by a running |
| 9 | system. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Press button to test: release to detonate. |
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| [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files? | James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> |