On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > You can also use git-2 eclass-specific variables to switch the repo. > The only difference is that you need to specify the full repo URI > rather than just the author.
The full repo URI is actually copy-pastable from github, while breaking everything up requires a few steps to configure it all. I could see some value in being able to switch forks, but that seems like a bit of a niche. If you REALLY want to follow another fork you're better off creating a new ebuild rather than just overriding the environment variable. You can also override the repo URI if it uses the git eclass and again that can be copy/pasted. As Diego/Ian pointed out, we can't really apply this well to anything but live ebuilds. Rich
