On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:20:06 +0000 Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| "* Portage must extend portageq to implement a command which
| returns whether or not the profile used for a given repository ID
| matches a certain base path (e.g. portageq profile_used
| default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3 gentoo-x86)."
| Wording here is a bit unclear, I assume it's supposed to mean wether
| or not the (any) used profile belongs the the given repoid and is (a
| subprofile of) the given profile name. Using "path" here is dangerous,
| e.g. portageq profile_used base gentoo-x86.

Hm, that one needs clarifying. Do we even want it to be based upon
inherit path rather than filesystem path?

| As any substantial change results in a new news item should there be
| an optional "Obsoletes" header? Could be used to make sure people
| only see the most current version (without relying on rsync to wipe
| deleted files).

I'd really rather not. That makes writing clients a lot harder.

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