> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Michał Górny wrote:
> I'm thinking of creating a new helper in Portage. The draft name is
> eslurp. It would be used like:
> eslurp [--dist|--binpkg] ...
+1
The name will need some bikeshedding, though. :)
I suggest "edrop" or "einsert".
> i.e. it would have two modes:
> 1. --dist would place all listed files in DISTDIR (respecting any
> possible future DISTDIR split),
> 2. --binpkg would place all listed packages in PKGDIR (respecting
> subdirectories, updating index).
> If neither of the options were specified, it would guess the
> directory type by the filename suffix.
I wonder how that could possibly work. Distfiles have no specific
suffix, and binpkgs have a .tbz2 suffix which however can occur for
distfiles too.
Ulrich
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