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. > > Plasmaroo: could you perhaps change this in the devmanual? > > I'll be looking through the tree to fix any existing occurrences of this.
Displaying $SRC_URI is worse for the user, because it displays this weird dependency tree containing USE flags that they should not need to decipher. I don't consider this something that should be "fixed." Thanks, Donnie
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