huge distfiles policy

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 20:36:32 UTC 2012


On 29 Sep 2012 17:48, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
> On 29 September 2012 09:22, Борис Самородов <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm about to commit print/texlive ports (PR/171571). One of it's ports
> > (print/texlive-texmf) has size approx. 1.4 Gb.
> >
> > What is the current policy upon huge ports? Should I restrict someting
> > to not build at, say, pointyhat? Something else?
>
> I believe others have set MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD= huge though I'm not
> certain if this is because the distfile is large, or the final package
> is large (although in this case both are true)

If you do, you should also chose NO_CDROM and disable distfile mirroring
too!

Chris


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