(This idea probably works on all other ebuilds of other versions of postgresql) Postgresql uses as it SRC_URI, ftp://ftp.us.postgresql.org/source/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz, but could actually use other files, so that I wont download files that it doesn't need. For example, ${P}.tar.gz has in itself the contents of the other 4 .tar.gz's that are in that same dir: base, docs, opt and tests. The current ebuild *only* uses files from the base tar file (with the small exception of the doc/src/sgml/ files). I suggest to change the SRC_URI to point to ${P}-base.tar.gz and to ${P}-doc.tar.gz. (Yeah, I know, you sabe a bit more than a meg of download... but it seems proper this way. Actually, if the doc/src/sgml/ files weren't being used by the ebuild, one would not download other 2.5M (6.5M of total download instead of the current M)
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I'm sorry for being late. The ebuild uses "opt" tar ball source. It maybe unnecessary depending on a USE flag. But I have no time for investigating. So I decided to change the ebuild to always download 'base' and 'opt' tar balls and 'docs' tar ball when it's set USE="doc" for now. I just fixed this bug in 7.4-r1 If you have any idea, please reopen this bug and comment.
