On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <m...@mva.name> > wrote: >> >> >> And, moreover, I guess, SRC_URI can even be used for VCS: >> >> SRC_URI=" >> git+ssh://github.com/lol/moo.git >> hg+ssh://bitbucket.org/lol/moo >> svn+ssh://assembla.com/lol/moo >> " > > Over my dead CVS access.
Grandstanding aside, it is probably best to take this in chunks. The all-or-nothing fetch restriction control does seem like a good place to start improving. I could certainly see where that could create needless problems. It just hasn't been much of an issue because fetch restriction is rare. Mirror restriction is likely a bigger problem even if it is somewhat user-invisible. Do we really want to hammer something like dev.gentoo.org for patches that aren't properly mirrored because the original source cannot be? Rich