Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-21 Thread George Shapovalov
[bunch of linguistic stuff skipped..] Huh? Is it just me or is there anybody else who thinks that this went way beyound ridiculous? Especially considering that Diego himself is not a native English speaker.. Anyway, after having been all over the world (including 7 years in California) and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/20/2011 08:42 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: We do distribute part of our packages as binaries already so we have to be compliant with their licenses to begin with. Better doing it with a single sweep than trying to come up with abstruse case-by-case points, no? No. Licenses are not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:23:49 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Now we're re-joining policy and practice. By forcing use of dev.gentoo.org for self-hosted SRC_URI files? What legitimate use does mirror://gentoo retain when we do have a solution? Ultimate patch attached.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 14:47:24 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno gio, 20/01/2011 alle 14.28 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 14:42:03 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno gio, 20/01/2011 alle 20.27 +0100, Matti Bickel ha scritto: Not sure what you mean: if someone quickpkg's php and needs all the source? Well, they already downloaded them. Better keep them around, since it's *your*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Dale
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday, January 20, 2011 14:47:24 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: SNIP Also angry unhelpful tools? You're putting words in my mail that aren't there. I said infra _used_ to be against that; it was obvious that knowing that I wouldn't just push the issue against their