On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:42:18PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> yep, nwn, it was a beast to d/l myself.
> is the correct answer to this putting RESTRICT=nomirror ?  i thought that was 
> client side only ... it hadnt occured to me that it would affect how the 
> gentoo distfile mirrors would be created ...
> 
> if that is so i'll add RESTRICT=nomirror to a bunch of games ... many are a 
> few hundred megs (mostly q3 mods) ...

We're actually in the process of working out a policy to address these
issues.  The current *suggested* proposal is the following:

Per-file size limit:

commercial products > 100MB
non-commercial products > 500MB

The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have
resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading
experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves
without impacting our user base to a significant degree.  non-commercial
products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would
continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently,
there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by
this cap limit)

Thoughts?

--kurt