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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:11:33 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/distfiles on FTP
Message-ID:  <18586.62597.988090.707524@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20080807103121.GA8415@regency.nsu.ru> <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> said:

> We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal. 
> There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still 
> needed even years later.

There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages
(particularly the static package sets included with releases).

-GAWollman



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