ps3dev/ps3libraries — comment on commit adf1d34312c4ee1692fb6fd442a7332bda885b07
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By kakaroto:

True and False... needing to 'run the script' at least once to populate the cache makes it an online installer, I mean being able to just clone the repo and have it all for offline compilation is what I mean.
also, if the scripts just use the archives without any wget, then that makes it an offline installer... i.e. no 'download.sh archive.tar.gz', and simply do a 'tar -czvf archive.tar.gz' knowing it is there and valid, etc...
That's the way I'd see an 'offline installer', but anyways all this is irrelevant, it's just about semantics. The important thing is to have those archives backed up somewhere in case the link is down.