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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:03:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5300A911.6020706@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21244.57571.465017.684762@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>


On 13/02/14 17:12, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> When rewriting the script scanning for binary files in the Portage
> tree [1], I noticed that there are some 25 XPM and SVG image files,
> with sizes up to 13 kB.
>
> For the time being, I've added exceptions for MIME types image/svg+xml
> and image/x-xpmi [2], but I think it would be better to clarify our
> policy on this. The devmanual currently says:
>
> | Things that do not belong in the tree:
> | * Large patches
> | * Non-text files
> | * Photos of teletubbies
> | * Files whose name starts with a dot
>
> Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file?

wasn't the whole argument for not allowing binary files in tree the
problems it causes w/ version control
history, web interface, and such?
then, what problems does .xpm or .svg cause? none, far as I know, so why
disallow them?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-16 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 15:12 [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree? Ulrich Mueller
2014-02-13 15:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2014-02-13 15:28   ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-02-13 15:30     ` Kent Fredric
2014-02-13 15:40       ` Rich Freeman
2014-02-15 20:06   ` James Cloos
2014-02-13 15:26 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-02-15 20:18 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-02-16 12:03 ` Samuli Suominen [this message]
2014-02-16 13:49   ` Ulrich Mueller

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