From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future]
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:02:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090913210259.1dfb36f7@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAD4BF7.8000806@hartwork.org>
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:45:59 +0200
Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> wrote:
> Alexander Færøy wrote:
> >> Second issue: "I want foopackage and barpackage, but not your
> >> hacked gcc" Overlays can overshadow tree packages, which can have
> >> undesired effects.
> >
> > Support for overlay information in package.mask?
>
> Once we have repository-specific atoms we get that for free.
Not quite. If both an overlay and the main tree provide foo-1.2,
masking foo-1.2::overlay in Portage would end up masking every foo-1.2.
You also need proper multiple repository support to make it work;
merely adding repo dep specs on top of a pure overlay model isn't
enough.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 23:02 [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-12 2:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-09-12 12:15 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 2:46 ` Ryan Hill
2009-09-29 1:08 ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-09-12 4:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Aaron Bauman
2009-09-12 17:26 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-12 11:23 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-09-12 17:29 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 9:11 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 10:47 ` Richard Freeman
2009-09-13 10:57 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 13:24 ` Richard Freeman
2009-09-13 19:39 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 19:38 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 11:30 ` [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] Thomas Sachau
2009-09-13 18:57 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-09-13 19:03 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 19:41 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-09-13 20:04 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 19:25 ` Alexander Færøy
2009-09-13 19:45 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 20:00 ` Alexander Færøy
2009-09-13 20:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-09-13 20:17 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 14:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-09-14 18:28 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 18:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-09-14 22:03 ` Zac Medico
2009-09-16 20:31 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-16 21:21 ` Zac Medico
2009-09-13 13:59 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Duncan
2009-09-13 14:36 ` Dale
2009-09-13 15:05 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-09-13 15:45 ` Dale
2009-09-13 19:52 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 21:25 ` Dale
2009-09-13 21:54 ` Alex Legler
2009-09-13 22:08 ` Dale
2009-09-13 22:53 ` Alex Legler
2009-09-13 23:06 ` Dale
2009-09-13 20:00 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-20 19:12 ` Duncan
2009-09-21 2:10 ` Angelo Arrifano
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