[oi-dev] Downloading archives to a common area

[Bayard Bell]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overflow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It also lets us add $(WS_TOP)/archives to .hgignore and no longer have to put up with seeing downloaded archives in the "hg status" output.
>>>
>>> Before I begin work on this changeset for illumos-userland, does anyone have any feedback?
>
> I'd like to see some caution against blowing away archives in there,
> if possible.
> Otherwise sharing it gets quite difficult.

Yes. Can someone [else--it's not so hard, and I'm happy to help
someone else through it, but I'm already a blocky resource] scope
changes in userland-fetch?