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 1EnNOi-0005Ry-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:45:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBGLj7KI028660; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:45:07 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBGLgruJ021715 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:42:54 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so674314wri for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:42:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sLgl1YPBPf9CHj4RvOypVRRWgTdiWYGPETscNzEx4BbVymGZ2+ir0BRJLFMFwYmmCQttZPJgDQdSAoBrHqZxuA/qElSVSYNok4AhcZcEAZGrXGJXgQS7gsfDilmSIGB2WiFs5RwqWGnRKiClvW8hfgAmq5Jst9+X7SmQVmSBFOE= Received: by 10.54.143.18 with SMTP id q18mr178519wrd; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:42:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.116.6 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:42:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10512161342p25edd2e8te6ad4bb17d988791@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:42:53 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support In-Reply-To: <20051216213353.5488df83@snowdrop.home> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline 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> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBGLgruJ021715 X-Archives-Salt: ca3301d4-ad05-4e7d-bee8-7f35f5208c32 X-Archives-Hash: b11d61d975c73acac071ee2b7b2db7db Why not $(portageq newsdir) ? Currently, that would return only the one for main tree, but if/whenever multi repo support it added, it could return a space delimted list. This makes it simple to manage, and lets the portage crew a) figure out what they want to do b) implement it while keeping this working On 12/16/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:18:45 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: > | I get it. The Portage team asks you to extend your spec, so you turn > | it around and ask them to extend their spec. Ha ha ha. Funny > | game. :) > > No no no. The Portage team asked me to extend GLEP 42 to include support > for some random thing that they might introduce in the future. I tell > them no, unless they be a lot more specific about what said random > thing is going to be. > > | Brian agreed with you that the extended dep syntax will be necessary > | at some point in the future. I also agree. So, knowing that glep 42 > | doesn't require extended depset syntax, can we stop playing this game > | and just settle on something like newsdir="$(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. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list