Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

[Sebastian Pipping]

Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> Hi,
> Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we choose
> the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under proxy).
>
> I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the http

Good idea.


> variant when the global use is set

Which one?


> (or we can use the http_proxy env
> variable).

The use flag approach is
- less flexible and therefore worse for ebuild testing?
- more stable as stuff like "env -i emerge ..." gives
  the same results



Sebastian