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

[Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org>]

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On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, 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.

Your @ is still a prefix for the repository name.

For usability's sake, please don't do this. I can imagine users getting
confused over the different meanings of the @ sign.

I do not want to trigger a discussion like the one PHP had when choosing
namespace separators, but we got the "::" established in Paludis and
Paludis is used by way more Gentoo people than equo.

So it only seems logical to me to use the wider-known and at the same
time ambiguity-free "operator".

Alex

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