On 18 August 2011 11:53, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Il giorno gio, 18/08/2011 alle 05.46 -0400, Anthony G. Basile ha > scritto: >> >> What alternative are you proposing to mirror://gentoo/ if upstream >> doesn't provide a tarball, eg with large patchsets the maintainer >> constructs? Anticipating your answer might be "keep them in your dev >> space", then what would be the deprecation policy for distfiles that >> are >> no longer used by ebuilds? If foresee a tension between keeping all >> the >> distfiles vs disk space, although Patrick's point of cheap hardware is >> well taken. > > Keep it in your dev space. As I said, the resources argument is only > available for infra to complain about, and since last I knew from them > was that it was not a problem right now...
And what if the dev retires/is kicked out? -- Best Regards Piotr Jaroszyński
