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From: "Brian Evans" <grknight@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/devmanual:master commit in: ebuild-writing/variables/
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:11:22 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1553014924.e4a6e552a4b2386893fca4d2834e0a38f89a5802.grknight@gentoo> (raw)

commit:     e4a6e552a4b2386893fca4d2834e0a38f89a5802
Author:     Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov  6 13:08:11 2017 +0000
Commit:     Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 19 17:02:04 2019 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=e4a6e552

ebuild-writing/variables: weaken the warning against third-party mirrors.

The warning against using third-party mirrors used to say that "the
mere existence of a third-party mirror list is not a good enough
reason to use it." That goes against a few existing uses of the
feature in the ::gentoo repository, so the wording is too strong. This
revision changes the warning, leaving the decision up to the
maintainer after alerting him to the potential maintenance burden.

Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635646
Suggested-by: Michael Palimaka <kensington <AT> gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo.org>

 ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
index d3255bd..4e4c76c 100644
--- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
+++ b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
@@ -448,13 +448,15 @@ example http://download.example.org/ ftp://ftp.example.org/
 SRC_URI="mirror://example/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 </codesample>
     <warning>
-      If the sources for a package are not mirror-restricted or
-      fetch-restricted, then there is little benefit to using this
-      feature: the sources will be <uri
+      If the sources for a package are neither mirror-restricted nor
+      fetch-restricted, then they will be <uri
       link="::general-concepts/mirrors">mirrored onto Gentoo
-      infrastructure</uri> anyway. In other words, the mere existence
-      of a third-party mirror list is not a good enough reason to use
-      it.
+      infrastructure</uri> automatically; in that case, there is
+      little benefit to using this feature. There is a maintenance
+      burden associated with using a third-party mirror list: it must
+      be updated when new mirrors are born and when old mirrors
+      die. Please consider that when deciding whether or not to use
+      this feature.
     </warning>
   </body>
 </subsection>


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