Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

["Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@gentoo.org>]

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Am Sonntag, den 24.05.2009, 20:04 +0200 schrieb lxnay@sabayonlinux.org:
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:04:08 +0200 (CEST)
> > lxnay@sabayonlinux.org wrote:
> >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports
> >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a
> >> package from a specific repository.
> >
> > @ is used by Portage for sets. Paludis has been using ::repo for repo
> > dependencies for years. Why not go with the established syntax?
> 
> I wrote "postfix" not "prefix". Sets use "@" prefix.
> Regarding your "why", why not going through GLEP and gentoo-dev acceptance ;) ?
> 
> >
> >> Users of multiple repositories seem to appreciate the freedom that is
> >> brought with this small-but-effective(TM) feature.
> >
> > Note that Portage doesn't support multiple repositories, so this one's
> > probably not very straight-forward... It supports overlays, which means
> > only one thing is ultimately visible for a c/p-v.
> 
> I know.
> 
> >
> > --
> > Ciaran McCreesh
> >
> 
> I am wondering if enabling @overlay postfix support could be just restricted to command line arguments, at least for the beginning.

And then it's a pm thing. So the person you want to talk about it is
zmedico.

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Tiziano Müller
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