On 10.10.2019 13:04, Mike Pagano wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 06:23:06PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
>>    On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:01 AM Mike Pagano <[1]mpagano@gentoo.org>
>>    wrote:
>>
>>      This change will support moving the genpatches tarballs from
>>      /space/distfiles-local to
>>      the devspace ~developer/public_html/dist/genpatches
>>
>>    I think it would help if you discussed why we were making this change.
>>    (I mean I can guess why, but it's not obvious.)
>>    -A
>>    Â
> I was informed that use of /space/distfiles-local is deprecated in favor
> of devspace.
>
>
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html
>
>

This is not really true,  (otherwise we would have to upload literally
8500 tarballs for texlive to my devspace).

I'd say narrowing an eclass' URIs to the selected group of people is
even worse for long-term usage.