how to deal with large data files

[Mark Anderson]

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.work at 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
>
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