Created attachment 926832 [details, diff] libreoffice-9999_ebuild_EGIT_SUBMODULES.patch Current situation: core and the submodules (dictionaries helpcontent2==help translations) are fetched and checked out. help(content2) is then done a 2nd time. see also: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/.gitmodules The live ebuilds don't use translations or dictionaries from there. helpcontent2 is big (more than 7GB I think). With my patch: added EGIT_SUBMODULES=(helpcontent2) to make sure only fetched and checked out the needed core and submodule. Removed the unneeded lines for help(content2) I have this running since a few years with base_uri="https://git.libreoffice.org".