Hi, First off all thanks a lot Lucas, I'm glad with your work.
* Allow users to create custom collections from other repositories. Not sure if that should be part of crux.nu's portdb. I can see that users create meta repositories, but I'm not sure if we should host them. Or is this mean to be a private custom collection, or just a special ports configuration file for a yet-to-be written ports(8) driver that can merge repositories?
This idea was sort of inspired with the pull action I implemented in my command line interface[1][2] to my current implementation of the portdb[3].
Yes, this could theoretically be a future ports driver (and is planned). The advantage here is that users could have a single ports repo on their local system containing only the ports they use. I write something similar some time ago and I'm using it ATM. I think it would be useful to take ideas: http://mikeux.dyndns.org/crux/files/ports-mult-driver.html
Best regards, Jose V Beneyto