Shawn Walker wrote: > > I still believe it is not the right place to store this information. > Quite frankly, I wouldn't want us to be using what resources we have for > serving this content instead of the content we really care about: packages. > > I also think that this content will end up being duplicated, as I would > imagine that you would need a copy of all of this content somewhere else > anyway (such as a source code control repository). > > It would seem more logical to me to have pointers to wherever it is that > you're already hosting that content instead of duplicating it.
+1 I think it's a waste of storage and network resources to store the source tarballs in the ips repos. Especially if we have duplicate pkg versions. We store source tarballs locally to build the /pending and /contrib repos. We should just point to what we already have in place, which is consistent with the pkg binaries. Most users could care less about the source code. They want the functionality provided by the pkg. Period. Delivering it to them in the shortest amount of time should be one of our main objectives. Adding unused bits to the pkg will only slow them down. Cheers, Jim _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
