On 17/12/12 12:17, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/12/2012 12:06, justin wrote: >> fetch-restricted files are to be considered critical here. Do we want to >> force the user to keep them twice? So an additional location which is >> not a "cache"? >> Of course PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS and friends are nice here, but they are >> not part of a default setup. > > I would still think they are cache. I can re-download Oracle's JRE > binaries; Portage's copy is a cache because I don't need to back it up. >
I am more thinking about packages which are not as easy accessible as JRE. There are a couple sci packages which are distributed on request by mail other inconvenient methods. Sometimes even not by your own, but by your PI or other seniors. And even sometimes upstreams doesn't distribute them anymore at all.
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