This also applies to app-doc/phrack-all It's a nice idea to have magazines and the like pullable via the package manager, but it isn't what portage is intended for. Things like this belong into an overlay and not into "mainline" portage. Handling overlays is easy enough. At the very least it must be moved to another (new?) category. app-doc is just wrong, these are no applications, these are simple text files. Besides, I can't exclude app-doc/ from portage as there are other, real packages in there.
Then exclude app-doc/phrack if you can't afford the 99k.
Also, for the record. I think overlays should be used *less*
This is not about 99k of hard drive memory and a dozen files. This kind of functionality simply does not belong into portage. One of the issues: where do you draw the line to what is permitted and what not? Phrack is okay, so why not add xkcd comics? Only 636 ebuilds! Of course I can exclude everything which I don't like. But I expect the portage tree to contain packages, not magazines. And If the majority thinks magazines are okay, fine, open a new category and I can exclude all of them without losing access to xorg-docs and the like.
Please don't reopen this bug again. There are no restrictions on the portage tree. Thanks.
