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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:59:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090302235913.21375f90@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236038139.19392.6.camel@su.perronet.esiee.net>

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On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:55:38 +0100
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> wrote:
> We didn't implement anything but let's just talk about what we wanted
> to see. We simply wanted overlay users to keep testing gnome 2.24
> components that were masked or using masked packages in
> base/package.mask so we just made sure those packages had the proper
> keyword visibility.

So if you could mask 'testing'ish things that're in the overlay
(already possible), and provide an easy, consistent way for users who
choose to to unmask and keyword a particular group of packages, would
that solve the problem?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27  2:41 [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays Mart Raudsepp
2009-03-02 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-02 23:55   ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2009-03-02 23:59     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-03-04  9:17       ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2009-03-05  1:37   ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2009-03-05  1:58     ` Zac Medico
2009-03-05  2:16       ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2009-03-05 10:20         ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-03-05 12:24           ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-03-05 13:47           ` Daniel Pielmeier
2009-03-18  2:30   ` Mart Raudsepp

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