Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 8 RFC] Selective fetch/mirror (un-)restriction

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:33 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>
> > what about getting rid of RESTRICT="fetch" and manage everything
> > inside SRC_URI? Would that be technically feasible? Ideally marking
> > only the not re-distributable download and leaving untouched the
> > others
>
> That would have the disadvantage that mirror and bindist restrictions
> (which are strongly correlated) would be listed in different places.

An obvious way to address that is to also move the mirror restriction
into SRC_URI, so that they are both exclusively in this location as
well.  I believe those are the only two redistribution-oriented
options for RESTRICT currently.

-- 
Rich