Currently, vim-core ebuilds download a tarball called vim-core-${PV}.tar.gz, which is byte-identical with vim-${PV}.tar.gz. Interestingly, app-editors/gvim *does* use the latter tarball. It'd be nice to save bandwidth by sharing this tarball across multiple ebuilds.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=44fab8c616c29f77e1eccbff55127f81eb6d3275 commit 44fab8c616c29f77e1eccbff55127f81eb6d3275 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-10-26 21:41:27 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-10-26 21:41:27 +0000 app-editors/vim-core: share tarballs with vim Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/878327 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> app-editors/vim-core/Manifest | 6 +++--- app-editors/vim-core/vim-core-9.0.0099.ebuild | 2 +- app-editors/vim-core/vim-core-9.0.0399.ebuild | 2 +- app-editors/vim-core/vim-core-9.0.0655.ebuild | 2 +- app-editors/vim-core/vim-core-9999.ebuild | 2 +- 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)