Subject: Re: graphics/ImageMagick distfile botch
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/12/2007 13:17:53
On 2/12/07, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
>   | It is not too late.
>
> Yes, once the change has been made as it is now, you get some
> distfile directories with one copy, and some with another.
> Any attempted correction probably results in many people
> fetching the distfile again for no good reason.

These days, refetching such a distfile is not that painful, so doing
the fix anyway is not a major problem compared to making it
consistent.  ImageMagick is semi-big, but it's not, e.g., teTeX.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>