[GitHub] [buildstream] gtristan opened a new issue #1536: The `--default-mirror` comand line option is not very useful

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gtristan opened a new issue #1536:
URL: https://github.com/apache/buildstream/issues/1536


   This option only controls the default mirror of the toplevel project.
   
   This is increasingly meaningless as projects become modular, or thin application projects are based on larger runtime projects.
   
   We should either remove this command line option altogether, along with an implementation of [this proposal](https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=1w3s72q4yf23rx0yc57tw0lf94q3g5bj), or we should elaborate on the option such that it can declare a default mirror for all projects loaded in the build pipeline, e.g.:
   
   ```
   bst --default-mirror gnome korea --default-mirror freedesktop-sdk korea fetch target.bst
   ```
   
   I think it would be acceptable to just remove the option as a first step and implement it more flexibly on demand in a later stable release of bst 2
   


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