Re: [gentoo-dev] [Future EAPI] src_fetch() phase function to support VCS fetching

[Brian Harring]

Yes.  The manager can still parallelize prefetching, only consuming a build
job slot post fetch.
On Sep 6, 2012 11:49 AM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:49:13 -0700
> Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > One additional thought- re: the scenarios where we don't fetch to an
> > intermediate location, then transfer that contents into ${WORKDIR},
> > while a better name is needed, something along the lines of
> > RESTRICT=fetches-into-workdir comes to mind.
> >
> > Basically that restriction would be interpretted as "$WORKDIR must be
> > setup/preserved from invocation of src_fetch to actual building".
> >
> > Via that restrict, both scenarios should be addressed in full.
>
> Does separate src_fetch() provide any benefit in that scenario?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>