Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

[Grant]

>> > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with
>> > exceptions for the domains you need.
>>
>> Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges?
>
> If you wget your packages using http, then yes. You could then:
>
> 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as
> some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources
>
> or
>
> 2. wget using ftp
>
> or
>
> 3. set up a proxy
>
> The easiest is #2 by far

Does portage use wget over http by default?  Can I change a setting to
make it use ftp?

- Grant