Mike Auty schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new 
> tables available from their site.  These are basically just additional 
> data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package, 
> but they're very large.  Including all of them will come just short of 
> 30Gb.  I don't know whether it's ok to add that to our mirrors, or add 
> RESTRICT="mirror"?

Currently they are on sourceforge mirrors AFAICT, so I expect that upstream
will not mind if Gentoo users download from there.

> Also, these take up a lot of space in distfiles.  Does anyone know of a
> clever way to allow them to be installed without also stashing a copy in
> distfiles (symlinking to the distfiles directory is a no go, because
> each "set" needs its own files to have the same name as the other
> sets)?

I suggest that you add a "large" USE flag, and if it is enabled, download
and install the whole thing. If disabled, just print the URLs in a log
message, so the user can download themselves if they wish.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn


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