Elfyn McBratney wrote:
I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian (ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are. My personal one is why updates/ and binpkg mangling takes so long in portage-$current. But I'd like to know, what are everyone elses?
I've been thinking about this lately too. I think it would be a good idea to come up with as many different use cases as we can think of and figure out what we can already do, what we would like to do, and the best way to do it.
I know that this topic have been rehashed since the dawn of time^Wgentoo-dev, but these things get lost, opinions change... and since last year, new and viable alternate package managers have cropped up. So, basically I'd like to ask all on this list: - what package manager features would make *your* life easier?
- current pet peeve is some way of dealing with SRC_URI's that use dynamic redirects to the source files (eg. http://nwvault.ign.com/fms/Download.php?id=57167 -> http://someserver.com/randomlygeneratedhashthatchangeseveryhour/the_HeX_coda_01_v1.3.zip). Since the name of the file fetched (the_HeX_coda_01_v1.3.zip) != the one in SRC_URI (Download.php?id=57167) portage bombs. right now i have to use RESTRICT="fetch" which sucks.
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