On Monday 03 July 2006 21:00, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> If you have an ebuild with a non-standard pkg_nofetch, please ensure
> that you use $SRC_URI instead of $A!
>
> This is because if you have FEATURES=mirror or FEATURES=cvs, attempts to
> download all of the source files for digesting or verification will hit
> pkg_nofetch and $A is only the subset of $SRC_URI, causing misleading
> messages to be displayed about what needs to be downloaded still.

whats the problem then ?  the user shouldnt have to download all the files in 
SRC_URI if his USE flags wont need some of it

SRC_URI="foo.tar.bz2 bar? ( bar.tar.bz2 )"

a user with USE=-bar should not have to download bar.tar.bz2 ... if they do, 
it's a portage bug ... fix portage, dont make ebuilds ugly
-mike