On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 22:57:59 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 22.31 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
> >  we havent
> > 
> > hosted files on dev.g.o because we've felt the distfiles tree to be
> > sufficient.  since there seems to be more need now, let's find out
> > what infra
> > can do to help out.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you have, for pax-utils and portage-utils, didn't you?

my personal choice to keep an archive of packages i build does not mean a hard 
policy must be forced upon everyone.

> > here's a better idea: figure out something with the infra team.
> > [snip]
> > again, declaring policy ahead of talking to anyone else is not the way
> > to go.
> 
> Actually, we meant to move to a stable archive of distfiles for years,
> and Robin has been working on it for months already.

then you should have mentioned this in your original e-mail rather than 
painting infra as angry unhelpful tools.  the changes you propose are merely a 
stop gap measure until infra finishes their work.
-mike

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