From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmulu-0005Po-DN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:30:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23528E09C4; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anubis.0x90.dk (unknown [130.225.165.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB187E09C4 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by anubis.0x90.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16BF51D34D; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:25:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:25:13 +0200 From: Alexander =?iso-8859-1?B?RuZy+Hk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] Message-ID: <20090913192513.GA26237@anubis.0x90.dk> References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4AACCDBF.5020207@gentoo.org> <4AACD7C5.2080703@gentoo.org> <200909132057.48975.patrick@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909132057.48975.patrick@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4c51d400-c604-4c5c-8f1d-29dc1978766c X-Archives-Hash: fde7c290366930233aa804a5473f252b On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 08:57:48PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > First issue: How do I find out in which overlay stuff is? Paludis' solution to that issue is the unavailable repository[1]. It is a repository that contains enough information about the packages in the repositories to display information about them without being able to install them. It works surprisingly well and it might be an idea worth looking at. > Second issue: "I want foopackage and barpackage, but not your hacked gc= c" > Overlays can overshadow tree packages, which can have undesired effects= . Support for overlay information in package.mask? [1] http://paludis.pioto.org/configuration/repositories/unavailable.html --=20 Alexander F=E6r=F8y