On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for > instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding > mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome.
There's another factor that some projects will change the contents of a tarball without bumping the name. If you get the altered file from SRC_URI, emerge will bail out with a checksum failure. -- Neil Bothwick WITLAG: The delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke.
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