Re: [Newsletter] Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Make existing multi-overlay support more explicit

[Felix Bier <Felix.Bier@rohde-schwarz.com>]

Am Freitag, den 30.10.2020, 11:54 -0400 schrieb Matt Turner:
> Looks good, though I wonder if we shouldn't rename 'portage_overlay'
> as well? 'repos' or something?
> 
> I'm going to change the custom .spec format over to TOML soon, so I
> can do that then unless you want to handle it.

I agree that 'portage_overlay' should be renamed. It seems 'repos' is
already taken (for the portage snapshot feature). We could rename
'repos' -> 'repos_storedir' and then 'portage_overlay' -> 'repos', but
I would prefer to keep this step separate from the PORTDIR_OVERLAY
removal.

My plan for the next steps would be:

 * Remove PORTDIR as well
 * Remove copying of overlays in favor of mounting
 * Somehow merge 'snapshot_treeish' and 'portage_overlay' into a single
option (called e.g. 'repos'), which takes a list of repo snapshots. So
there would no longer be a special main repo.

> 
> I'll commit this if you will give me your Signed-off-by for the
> patches. Thanks!