It’s an optional port? I think marking it non-distributible the the way to go for now, but we should think about adding a “mirror no” “force_remote” or something that is more semantic.
Mind you I have no idea how to do that (yet). But it’s an idea. —Mark On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:17 PM Renee Otten <ottenr.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only > download a large data set (~5GB), see > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904. I assume we do not > necessarily want to have that stored on the MacPorts distfile mirrors… > correct? One way to accomplish this, I think, is to make it > non-distributable, even though the license would allow so. Is there a > preferred way of doing this or are there no concerns with a port like this? > > Thanks, > Renee > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile on iPhone
