On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 01/27/2018 11:42 AM, Gordon Pettey wrote: >> Why not use a hash of the file name instead of its contents? That >> seems like it would be much simpler, and that's not going to reduce >> the output space for balance... > > That's the proposal =P
I'm not following, then. What's all this about a temporary directory because of not knowing the hash in advance? The ebuild must specify the file name, or src_unpack wouldn't work. There is never a point where the file name, and therefore its hash, is unknown.
