Jan Kundrát wrote: >Alin Nastac wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >This one is about sorting by first letter of filename. It won't solve >multiple different files with same filename, though. > > > I know what is this about, but Stuart was trying to reopen that old thread.
You can't solve the name conflict in a generic fashion without increasing required resorces from our mirrors (either disk space or CPU + RAM). Since probability of such conflict is very low, I say better solve one conflict at a time, by hosting a renamed version of those files on mirror://gentoo.
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