Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Francesco Riosa wrote:

> Il 23/03/2018 10:48, Ulrich Mueller ha scritto:
>> Conceptually that makes no sense. sys-devel/gcc is the name of an
>> upstream package, so what does it even mean to mask it in one
>> repository but not in another? If it's the same package, then it
>> should behave in the same way, regardless of the repository its
>> ebuild it hosted in (or the package being installed, in which case
>> it is no longer in an ebuild repository).

>> If it is a different package however, then it should have a
>> different name.

> Sorry to say it bluntly but this make no sense at all, even changing
> a USE flag make the package behave wildly differently.

Right, So you want USE dependencies, which we have. Nothing stops a
package in an overlay from having additional USE flags.

> Once we agree that an upstream (complex enough) package may have
> different incarnations two ebuilds from different maintainers may
> please differently the user.

Still, masking is the wrong way to express such preferences. If you
package.mask sys-devel/gcc then you say that something is wrong with
that package. Which I believe is not what you want to express here.

Ulrich

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