[gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage

[Pablo De Napoli <pdenapo@yahoo.com>]

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Hi,

I want to suggest a little inprovement to portage: suppose that I've
created my own ebuild for a package in PORTDIR_OVERLAY
and suppose that no ebuild for this package is included in the 
Gentoo portage (in PORTDIR)
Then for sure, the sources are not available in the Gentoo mirrors
and portage should go directly to the original site (the
SRC_URI from the ebuild)  for fetching the source, since it is
a waste of time try to access all the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS
when we know in advance that the sources are not there.
There are two possible ways to implement this:

- an emerge option like --skip-gentoo-mirrors

or 

- that emerge checks in the PORTDIR if there is a package with the
same name and version

Pablo De Napoli
 

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