Randy McMurchy wrote:
Why is it that the package URL is not listed, but only the location
where it *should* be?
<snip>
So, why not just list the package URL?
Short answer...it's a historical oversight, I think.
Long answer...
We used to point to the packages homepage rather than to the download
location. That enabled anyone who wanted to, to use a mirror (assuming
there was a link to one from the homepage).
Someone proposed a patch to change the homepage links to point to
download locations instead and that got applied in r4712. When it went
in though, I guess noone picked up on the fact that we may as well link
directly to the package tarballs. As there's no easy way of figuring
out mirror availability from those links, I guess we may as well point
straight at the tarballs.
Regards,
Matt.
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