On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:21, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:17:06 -0500 Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > | I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable'
> > | tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains
> > | security and major bugfixes out of cycle.
> > 
> > Something that just occured to me... Do most upstreams keep old versions
> > of packages available for several years? Or would we have to mirror all
> > distfiles rather than just our current small subset?
> 
> I would think that we would need to mirror everything that is provided
> in the stable tree.

It's pretty easy to imagine things with licenses that prohibit mirroring
would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in our stable tree.

Donnie

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