Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:15:47 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@supernews.net> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Distfile move megapatch Message-ID: <3C833B43.322DD72B@FreeBSD.org> References: <B8A87878.8F36%ade@supernews.net>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > > Hi all, > > Well, since things seem to be slowing down on the development of GNOME 1.x, > such that components aren't being upgraded as fast as they were, I'd like to > commit the following megapatch that moves GNOME 1.x distfiles into > DIST_SUBDIR=gnome, and USE_BZIP2 where possible. > > http://www.lovett.com/~ade/gnome/gnome-distfile-move.diff > > I've run through 3 successful builds with this (both of gnome and > gnome-fifth-toe). Unless there are any really strong objections, and given > the time until 4.6-REL (and the impending 5.0-DP1 snapshot), I'd like to > roll this in. Honestly I don't like it, for the reasons already discussed here. As I said earlier we don't really need to distract our users with slow Internet connections by the need to re-download the whole set of distfiles. Therefore, my vote is a "strong no". -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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