Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:04 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> RESTRICT=[no]fetch
> ------------------
> Should be used if the license prohibits unattended/automated download
> (eg click-through licenses), or the upstream author wants all downloads
> to be manually done from their site (I know of at least one package
> where this is true).

correct

> RESTRICT=[no]mirror
> -------------------
> - Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?)

yes ...

> - License issues?

right, some people dont allow us to redistribute (like some games)

> - anything else?
>
> Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with
> RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via
> sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches
> would go to SF first, and we'd still have a copy available on our
> mirrors.

because a while back someone got the big idea that if someone provides a 
mirroring system (like sourceforge), we should let users abuse those mirrors 
instead of gentoo mirrors ... subsequently, people started sticking RESTRICT 
into the ebuilds ...

we have since decided that was a dumb idea (which i agree with) but no one 
cared to go through portage and revert the RESTRICT ... i just do it when i 
happen to notice it updating old ebuilds
-mike
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