On 18.06.23 22:39, TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI wrote:
> Hello gentoo devs. The other day I made a feature suggestion to the 
> eselect repository github page. (Here's the link: 
> https://github.com/projg2/eselect-repository/issues/20 
> <https://github.com/projg2/eselect-repository/issues/20>).
> Michał Górny suggested that I should contact the gentoo-dev mailing list 
> with my suggestion, so here it is: My suggestion is to make it possible 
> for eselect repository to manage overlay dependencies.
> 
> As it stands, and as far as I'm concerned, there is no "proper" way of 
> having an ebuild dependency from another overlay. So overlay writers 
> have to copy ebuilds from other overlays or rewrite them. This implies 
> synchronization issues (where the "copied" ebuilds get out of sync from 
> the original ebuild) and time loss (people writing the same ebuild more 
> than once).
> 
> Michał Górny suggested that I should make an edit to the 
> repositories.xml file in order to tackle the issue.
> 
> This is my general idea:
> (I am using the github template as an example, but the idea should apply 
> to all other templates. I got this file from 
> https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/blob/master/files/overlays/repositories.xml <https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/blob/master/files/overlays/repositories.xml>).
> 
>    * GITHUB TEMPLATE
>      <repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
>        <name>XXXXX</name>
>        <description lang="en">XXXXXX</description>
>        <homepage>https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx 
> <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx></homepage>
>        <owner type="person">
>          <email>XXXXX</email>
>          <name>XXXXX</name>
>        </owner>
>        <source type="git">https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git 
> <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git></source>
>        <source type="git">git+ssh://git@github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git 
> <http://git@github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git></source>
>        <feed>https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx/commits/master.atom 
> <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx/commits/master.atom></feed>
>        <dependencies>
>            <name>overlayName</name>
>        </dependencies>
>      </repo>

Isn't that duplicating the information of metadata/layout.conf's 
'master' key-value pair [1]?

- Flow

1: 
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/metadata/layout.conf#masters