From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElbTO-0008Dg-TC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:23:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBC0Mbhq027162; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:22:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBC0KjuI021174 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:20:45 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1ElbQq-0006Nw-QX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:20:45 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElbQp-0002M5-5q for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:20:43 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:20:40 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Message-ID: <20051212002040.0cceb74e@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200512120911.53976.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512120844.00805.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051212000129.65f4e127@snowdrop.home> <200512120911.53976.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_Jue=xRIUy078QA16aD5vpNA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e4e88ed1-f745-431a-a777-51539d22f8db X-Archives-Hash: ba9b2cb53d32daff3a1abeb53766029f --Sig_Jue=xRIUy078QA16aD5vpNA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:11:53 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org> wrote: | Regardless of what you think about the current plans for multiple | repository support, the details that readers will need to know wont | change. Incorrect. Right now, readers should ignore news-blah.unread and only pay attention to news.unread. Readers will have to be updated to deal with multiple repositories whenever the multiple repositories GLEP is approved. | > | Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I | > | guarantee bugs about support for this in portage overlays. With | > | the above, we would be able to add that support. Without it, all | > | we can do is put a big CANTFIX. | > | > Overlay is not the same as multiple repository support. |=20 | There's no difference as far as readers go. Sure there is. there's no metadata/ directory in overlays. | Nope, which is why news.read shouldn't be specified. news.read is specified because there was demand for it the last time around. It's staying specified because the reasons given were based upon convincing use cases rather than random speculation. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_Jue=xRIUy078QA16aD5vpNA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnMJa96zL6DUtXhERAkZdAJ9a3ha+6GWA2jB+Kdtn7/k324xktgCg5jOy UQ0zw8mPO/90dbw2xS0YZ/8= =uAjY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Jue=xRIUy078QA16aD5vpNA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list