Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2017, 14:21:10 CET schrieb Michał Górny:
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has
> accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is:
> 
>   Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger
>   than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should
>   be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs.
> 
> (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes)
> 

This is hard (but not impossible I guess) for toolchain stuff, even though we 
have already most patches in external tarballs, since we want to keep some old 
versions of packages available.

E.g. 

huettel@pinacolada ~/Gentoo/gentoo/sys-libs/glibc/files $ find . -type f
./2.17/glibc-2.17-hardened-pie.patch
./2.18/glibc-2.18-gentoo-stack_chk_fail.c
./2.18/glibc-2.18-hardened-inittls-nosysenter.patch
./2.18/glibc-2.18-gentoo-chk_fail.c
./2.19/glibc-2.19-ia64-gcc-4.8-reloc-hack.patch
./2.19/glibc-2.19-hardened-configure-picdefault.patch
./2.20/glibc-2.20-gentoo-chk_fail.c
./2.20/glibc-2.20-gentoo-stack_chk_fail.c                                       
                                                                                
                                     
./2.20/glibc-2.20-hardened-inittls-nosysenter.patch                             
                                                                                
                                     
./2.10/glibc-2.10-gentoo-chk_fail.c                                             
                                                                                
                                     
./2.10/glibc-2.10-hardened-inittls-nosysenter.patch                             
                                                                                
                                     
./2.10/glibc-2.10-hardened-configure-picdefault.patch
./nscd.tmpfilesd
./2.25/glibc-2.25-gentoo-chk_fail.c
./nscd.service
huettel@pinacolada ~/Gentoo/gentoo/sys-libs/glibc/files $ du -sh .
152K    .

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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