From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1En742-0003d2-FM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:19:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBG4IhUX009601; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:18:43 GMT Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.96]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBG4GrOp005932 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:16:54 GMT Received: (qmail 57683 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2005 04:16:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (curtis119@sbcglobal.net@70.226.17.104 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2005 04:16:52 -0000 Message-ID: <43A23FC7.3010801@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:17:11 -0500 From: Curtis Napier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support References: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> <20051216035630.2b005138@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051216035630.2b005138@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 59583264-b4f9-44c3-b7cb-1e16e9d40c1d X-Archives-Hash: 0fdacee43419ff4585da091934869d1b Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34:05 -0500 Andrew Muraco > wrote: > | 2. What choices/options are on the table for this feature? > > The big controversy seems to be over whether repositories carry a > unique identifier string (for example, in metadata/repository_id) or > whether it's user-assigned. The former is clearly the more sensible > option, since it lets you do things like (syntax made up): > > DEPEND=">=foo-bar/baz-2.1::ciaranmssekritrepo" > > which would add a restriction that only packages in ciaranmssekritrepo > would be considered. This only works if the repository knows its own > identifier, however... > > Incidentally, the ::repo syntax (or whatever) would also be useful in > the world file, along with :slot. So something like: > > foo-bar/baz:2::ciaranmssekritrepo > > would tell the package manager that you want baz SLOT 2 from > ciaranmssekritrepo. > > *shrug* But it seems the Portage guys want repository names to be > user-assigned, which makes them far less useful. > This functionality would come in very very handy. Would user assigned repository names be able to mimic this functionality somehow? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list