It would be nice if repoman actually used an XDG_CACHE_DIR path instead, so that there is no reason for the user running repoman to have access to distdir at all.
(In reply to Diego Elio Pettenò from comment #0) > It would be nice if repoman actually used an XDG_CACHE_DIR path instead, so > that there is no reason for the user running repoman to have access to > distdir at all. That seems reasonable, but I guess we should go with XDG_CACHE_HOME (the XDG Base Directory Specification refers to XDG_CACHE_HOME, though some things have used XDG_CACHE_DIR historically). This raises some questions: * Should XDG_CACHE_HOME be used for fetching distfiles if the global DISTDIR is not writable and `repoman manifest` needs to fetch distfiles? * Should we support user-specific repoman and/or portage configuration in XDG_CONFIG_HOME?
*** Bug 602948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
