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 1EnNvX-0002sl-Fm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:19:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBGMJ4qj003368; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:19:04 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBGMHFqL032362 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:17:15 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s6so552383wxc for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZADvILEwk3CODMK8s37ZocuNKIKQnEdnM6rN5fHxGjBJ5sz9BNKbLIYw3G7Lry1fPlf+5q3Gbytko8CZGcDeucPqVz25oZXMdNU5f+aztaAuCR8CobDmYzEPWI6DJz9PelBGWrELKpw+XfvXLSPr6HAGcfYAfK6HFgvBoH75DvY= Received: by 10.70.10.11 with SMTP id 11mr1582013wxj; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.20.213? ( [209.129.85.4]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i14sm5518521wxd.2005.12.16.14.17.13; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43A33CE9.4090407@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:13 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) 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> <20051216121208.GD30053@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> <20051216175817.65682c34@snowdrop.home> <43A32F35.1020803@gmail.com> <20051216213353.5488df83@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051216213353.5488df83@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 08003d09-ef37-40be-a9de-d817706bf0fb X-Archives-Hash: d256e8358e13e208f415718a88deafc3 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | Brian agreed with you that the extended dep syntax will be necessary > | at some point in the future. I also agree. So, knowing that glep 42 > | doesn't require extended depset syntax, can we stop playing this game > | and just settle on something like newsdir="$(portageq newsdir > | gentoo)"? > > What the heck is this 'gentoo' thing, and how does it help? Shoving > newsdir into portageq doesn't help *at all* with multiple repository > support. > Like I said in a previous email, 'gentoo' corresponds to 'magic-chicken' in your news-magic-chicken.unread files. The news reader app gets the repo identifier from the news-*.unread files and plugs that into portageq to get the directory where the corresponding new items can be found. Zac -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list