On 01/25/2018 10:42 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu czw, 25.01.2018 o godzinie 21∶30 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico
> napisał:
>> On 01/25/2018 01:11 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> W dniu czw, 25.01.2018 o godzinie 10∶07 +0100, użytkownik Michael
>>> Haubenwallner napisał:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> ${Subject} ringing a bell here:
>>>>
>>>> dev-db/oracle-instantclient is fetch restricted. As a binary package with
>>>> multiple USE options there's a bunch of files to download - even for
>>>> multiple archs when multilib is active.
>>>>
>>>> So in pkg_nofetch() I'm telling the user whether a file to download is
>>>> "already here" or "still absent", by testing if $A exists in $DISTDIR.
>>>>
>>>> With ${Subject}, I'm wondering if DISTDIR is created for pkg_nofetch too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're doing the wrong thing then. DISTDIR is not allowed
>>> in pkg_nofetch().
>>
>> It seems to be a common assumption that it's allowed, this command
>> currently shows 163 results in the gentoo repo:
>>
>> git grep -l pkg_nofetch | xargs grep 'e\(log\|info\).*DISTDIR' | wc -l
>>
>> We should double check with the PMS maintainers to see if they think
>> it's worthy of an exception. Otherwise, we need to announce the issue on
>> the gentoo-dev mailing list.
> 
> PMS maintainers already verified that back during the first run of those
> patches. However, we believe the only reasonable way to get this out of
> pkg_nofetch() is to actually stop it from working, so people would stop
> using it.

Okay, that works for me. The patches looks good. Please merge.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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