Hello list, The new ability to pull packages from Gentoo servers is useful [1]. It does require something close to neutral USE flags, though, as well as -march and - mtune. My little Celeron box only took 19 minutes (!) to fetch and install gcc, not the 23 hours it took before.
I'd like to be able to tell portage to ignore the Gentoo packages in certain instances - something like half those 19 minutes were spent in checking the local indexes against the server's. And if I know I have a good local package, I don't want to have to go and make coffee or something while it goes through that checking process before ignoring the upstream packages. At the moment, the only way I can see to change portage's behaviour like that is to keep editing FEATURES in make.conf. -- Regards, Peter.
