[Slackbuilds-users] Size limit for vendored dependencies

[B. Watson]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, fsLeg wrote:

> however it is a potential issue for a comminity infrastructure, namely slackware.uk which caches all source tarballs.
>
> What would be a sensible size limit for vendoring dependencies before going "screw it, just enable network access"?

That's a good question. I don't have an answer...

For slackware.uk, we can selectively disable caching the sources on
a per-package basis. Already have to do this for things like oracle's
JDK that don't have direct download links.