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[MIRROR] Official Gentoo ebuild repository

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Thank you! I don't live in git and this helps! Normally under gentoo I shouldn't have to. This actual git https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (as opposed to the gentoo browser view) plus this "checkout the commit" should get me much further. ... And probably deserve some space in the gentoo docs.
If you go to an earlier commit here, you can find earlier versions: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo
I’ve made many a trip to the git repo to dig up older versions and copy down the old version ebuilds into my own overlay: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo
All of Gentoo's packages are in git and it does support recursive removal: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo
You mean like Gentoo (https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo) ? It's not that big either (around 700MB).
Nix / NixOS[1], and Gentoo[2] also use monorepos with some provision for overlays.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

2: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo