On 5/21/24 4:10 PM, Henri Gasc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am in the process of updating dev-python/mkdocs-rss-plugin (in GURU),
> and I find myself in a pinch.
> To build the documentation, there are 74 files needed. It's too much to
> add them to the SRC_URI and copy the files in src_prepare, but at the
> same time, the best compression achieved on a tar archive is 3.3M and I
> worry about putting it in a files directory.
> 
> Does anyone has an idea on how to solve this ? I would prefer not to
> create a git repo and add it from there.
> Regards,
> Henri Gasc


It is even a violation of Gentoo policy to have files larger than IIRC
20kb in files/.

This *must* be handled via SRC_URI, where to host the tarball is up to
the maintainer.

-- 
Eli Schwartz