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From: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
To: Jonathan Kelly <j0n@tpg.com.au>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:26:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020818112644.21a98116.jnelson@jamponi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020818165734.6029f4bc.j0n@tpg.com.au>

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:57:34 +1000
Jonathan Kelly <j0n@tpg.com.au> wrote:

> > It would make sense (to me anyway) if the local ebuilds in
> > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY were *NOT* checked against packages.mask, that way us
..
> I think that is a logical and great idea.

I disgree.  I think it's a hack that doesn't really solve the problem at
hand, which is "supplementary" package masking, using the package
mask in /usr/portage as the 'canonical' package mask and then using
a second package mask to over ride that.

PORTDIR_OVERLAY is there for just one reason, to provide *local*
ebuilds.  If the behavior of ebuilds is different here, that is an 
inferred behavior and not a logical one.

package masking and ebuilds are separate, keep their interfaces
separate.

-- 
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.

Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
C and Python Code Gardener


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-18 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-16 22:28 [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask Sebastian Werner
2002-08-16 22:42 ` mike
2002-08-16 23:08 ` Troy Dack
2002-08-17 16:13   ` Sebastian Werner
2002-08-18  4:04   ` Jonathan Kelly
2002-08-18  6:31     ` Troy Dack
2002-08-18  6:57       ` Jonathan Kelly
2002-08-18  9:40         ` Rigo
2002-08-18  9:43           ` Rigo
2002-08-18 16:26         ` Jon Nelson [this message]
2002-08-18 17:26           ` mike
2002-08-18  8:13       ` Fredrik Jagenheim
2002-08-18 11:12       ` Troy Dack
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-18  6:54 Thomas Beaudry

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