Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:11:33 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/distfiles on FTP Message-ID: <18586.62597.988090.707524@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080807103121.GA8415@regency.nsu.ru> <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org>
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<<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> said: > We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal. > There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still > needed even years later. There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages (particularly the static package sets included with releases). -GAWollman
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