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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local eclass?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:11:23
Message-Id: 20170110211054.7d657fbd@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Local eclass? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:00:12 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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3 > One remaining minor surprise: the distfiles fetched by repoman manifest
4 > still go to the gentoo repo's distfiles directory, in fact no distfiles
5 > subdirectory in the local repo is created. Is this to be expected?
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7 Yes, there is one DISTDIR for everything, that just happens to be located
8 inside the man portage tree by default (whether that makes sense is a
9 topic for another flame war). It makes sense when you think about it, you
10 add an ebuild that builds a package sightly differently (maybe patching
11 an upstream bug) but that doesn't mean you want to download the sources
12 again.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Grow your own dope, plant a politician!