On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:57:00 -0400 Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Chris Gianelloni wrote:
| > We were talking about this on IRC due to the growing concern over
| > patches and other files in ${FILESDIR} in the portage tree.  This is
| > basically the idea that we came up with to resolve the problem.
| > 
| 
| Why do we need a separate location for patches?  How are they 
| fundamentally different from the sources in distfiles?

distfiles take eight hours to get mirrored.

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