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Hiya,

First off, thanks everybody for the suggestions.  It seems like people
aren't keen to mirror the large tables on our mirrors, but no one's
mentioned a reason for not doing so.  Is there an infra reason behind
that or did everyone just take my caution and run with it?

On 16/10/13 02:40, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> 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.

So downloading them manually is a pain (the larger tables aren't in a
single zip, they're split amongst 12 files for each table), and the
ebuild to do the downloading is already built.  I'll include a
postinst note indicating that the tables are getting stored twice, and
I should even be able to give them an indication of how much space
they're wasting.  I'll also provide a URL they can visit if they want
to download manually instead.

The question then becomes, do I split the ebuild into two (giving us
three ebuilds for what is otherwise a tiny package) just so some SRCs
are mirror-restricted and others aren't?  All of that hinges on
whether our servers can handle the extra size...

Mike  5:)
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