From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8JMz-0007ts-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 19:28:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3F8AE052C; Sun, 24 May 2009 19:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.tmcs.ch (113.245.131.213.static.inetbone.net [213.131.245.113]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AE5E052C for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 19:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (132-117.3-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.3.117.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.tmcs.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4299815E3B2A for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 21:28:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support From: Tiziano =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9iRMcgTJRQ45ZElxrmlF" Organization: Gentoo Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:28:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1243193305.8346.189.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: f3e75be9-8764-49da-9893-ceca757c5e25 X-Archives-Hash: b49ae9054b06876da8b009f841f42dfa --=-9iRMcgTJRQ45ZElxrmlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Sonntag, den 24.05.2009, 20:04 +0200 schrieb lxnay@sabayonlinux.org: >=20 > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh 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? >=20 > I wrote "postfix" not "prefix". Sets use "@" prefix. > Regarding your "why", why not going through GLEP and gentoo-dev acceptanc= e ;) ? >=20 > > > >> 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. >=20 > I know. >=20 > > > > -- > > Ciaran McCreesh > > >=20 > I am wondering if enabling @overlay postfix support could be just restric= ted 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. --=20 Tiziano M=C3=BCller Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-zero@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30 --=-9iRMcgTJRQ45ZElxrmlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkoZn9kACgkQGwVqY66cHjBdkwCfc+wNb1b3cpCx9n+oDPiE3v29 t0sAn1PilHA7rV3IEUp/ygJMjVr1Qcw4 =HcCF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9iRMcgTJRQ45ZElxrmlF--