Stuart Herbert wrote:
>Why not have the directory structure follow the package category
>structure? E.g. the distfiles for package foo/bar goes into the
>directory ${MIRROR_ROOT}/foo/bar?
>
>This should be easy enough to support in Portage, and if applied to
>the /usr/portage/distfiles directory too, would solve a few other
>problems. It also has the advantage of grouping the distfiles in a
>way that users would find natural to browse.
>
>There is the problem of what happens when a package moves, but I think
>that's easily solved too.
>
>
this has been discussed before.
summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way
you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors.
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