Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Gustavo Felisberto wrote:
> My main issue is with size. Right now portage has to pull ALL the packages in
> the PORTAGE_BINHOST to create the dep tree. Is there a way for me to say:
> 
> emerge -u --use-bynary-packages-if-possible system and portage will build the
> dep tree based on the local portage tree, then it will try to fetch the updated
> packages and see if the deps are ok.
> 

meh..You want to build a depgraph on local ebuilds, and then try to find
matching binpkgs after the fact?  I'd imagine you'd have a lot of
trouble finding matching packages, tbh :)

Ebuilds in the tree will get updated, or your local USE flags will
change; your binary packages won't match in either case here, because
the tree has a more up to date package or a package with correct flags.
 Thats why the binary repo is used for the deptree generation.

Talk to solar about binhost, I know he has a better implementation lying
around; it's a matter of finalizing it ;)
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