haskell overlay has around 1000 packages of them only 200 are in main tree. Thus most of fetches from overlay first hit main gentoo tree and then fallback to SRC_URI. What do you think of allowing to mess with it right in layout.conf? metadata/layout.conf: restrict = mirror <anything else> [ Don't know if it also needs to be addressed in PMS ] Thanks!
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #0) > metadata/layout.conf: > restrict = mirror <anything else> That sounds reasonable. We could also allow negative incrementals in ebuilds, so that things like RESTRICT="-mirror" are possible.
How RESTRICT="-mirror" should work? restrict RESTRICT=mirror in overlay ebuilds?
The restrict setting from metadata/layout.conf would provide default RESTRICT settings for all the ebuilds in the overlay, and the ebuilds could override the defaults. They would set RESTRICT="-mirror" to remove mirror from the current ebuild's RESTRICT, so it would not inherit mirror from the defaults.
I think it is important to keep this information in the ebuild itself. Else it could get lost too easy by copying ebuilds and false RESTRICT information is a) a legal problem and b) very difficult to detect for us.
The original use case had nothing to do with license restrictions. Nothing prevents you from not putting RESTRICT=mirror to the ebuild in ::gentoo and be in trouble. Or having a bad license. As for original request ::haskell ended up actually having a mirror for overlay as well.
