On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> This is a small feature request, but it will require a modification to > PMS, so I describe it here. > > The present thirdpartymirrors file is unwieldy, and difficult to manage > due to it's format with very long lines. It also doesn't permit easy > comments. Presently commits to it look very ugly, because diffs are > line-based, and we pack a lot into each line. > > I would like to make it a directory instead of a single file, and extend > the internal syntax. > > I am very excited about this whole idea, this thirdpartymirrors setup badly needs some reworking. To me it makes the most sense to turn thirdpartymirrors into a dir, with a file structure like: thirdpartymirrors/mirror1 thirdpartymirrors/mirror2 thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/ thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Asia thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Europe thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Etc thirdpartymirrors/mirror4 I'm not sure I see much real value in allowing individual profiles to add/remove mirrors from each group, to be honest. Maybe I'm just not thinking of the right scenarios. But I really do believe just the basic changes like splitting the file so each group gets its own file, one server per line, with comments, etc... will be a huge help in using and maintaining these groups. -Ben
