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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:54:28 +0000
From: "Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles
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On 3/6/06, Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org> wrote:
> this has been discussed before.
> summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way
> you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors.

And you can't hard-link the files into multiple directories because ...?

Best regards,
Stu

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