MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

[Landon Fuller]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

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> I didn't know they are using such a flat namespace.

They're not -- When there are distfile collisions (and there are),  
they use DIST_SUBDIR to partition a particular port's distfiles.
MacPorts by default simply places all distfiles in a port-specific  
subdirectory, since only port names are required to not conflict.
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