Right now all downloads have to be in DISTDIR. Fetch restricted packages need to be downloaded and moved to DISTDIR. With a new location for fetch-restriced packages (sth like DISTDIR_FETCH, which by default points to DISTDIR), I'd like to allow a user to download files and put them in there. Portage should look up files like this: always DISTDIR. if package is fetch restricted: also DISTDIR_FETCH This would enable several things: - shared DISTDIR_FETCH in networked environments with multiple gentoo machines (if you for some reason don't want share the complete distfiles) - easier cleanup of DISTDIR (if you wanna free up space but don't wanna delete those 10-20 fetch restriced files) - more restricted access control to DISTDIR (usually a non-root user downloads the fetch-restriced file and moves it to DISTDIR); instead you could grant a user access to DISTDIR_FETCH
Maybe just use PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS for this? You can list as many directories as you want in the PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS variable.
