Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_nofetch: $A vs. $SRC_URI

[Donnie Berkholz]

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