Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > ...and the user has this in their install.mask file:
> > 
> > [bash-completion]
> > path=/some/other/path
> > desc=some other description
> > 
> 
> I don't think that's allowed; the groups are specified by each
> repository's metadata/install-mask.conf, not by the users.
> 
> Although, you can ask the same question about overlays that have
> group-name clashes. Is that an error, or would we use the one from the
> overlay?

Oh, you are correct. Originally I planned to handle that, and I forgot
about it.

Since there can be multiple paths, we have two options: either
override, or amend like systemd does with *.d files. I think the former
would be less surprising.

Override is simple -- entry from next file overrides previous,
and discards all data.

Amending is harder. Description from next file overrides former, but
paths are appended. But there is special 'path=' (empty) that discards
all previous values and starts over. I don't think that's really a good
idea for repos.

--
Michał Górny

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