[gentoo-dev] Another idea

[George D. Plymale]

Hi, I have had another idea which has been rolling around in my head for 
some time which would allow users to use cvs instead of downloading 
tarballs if desired, particularly useful for testing systems, 
developers, and simply for people who update from snapshot to snapshot. 
 If an /etc/make.conf were provided and the user could define cvs or 
tarballs for downloading, as well as "development or snapshots" I 
believe it would be very useful.  Another useful option would be to 
allow fetching to be made with different fetching utils such as "snatch 
or fetch or wget" and allow the resume option to be enabled, so a "-r" 
flag would be passed and resume would occur in the appropriate 
directory, which is something that is lacking in ports, and a script a 
friend and I made doesn't seem to do the trick if 
/usr/ports/distfiles/some_other_download_dir_name is used instead of 
/usr/ports/distfiles.  At any rate, these are some ideas and I am still 
considering jumping in with both feet into Gentoo.

Thanks again,
-George