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From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
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On 12/16/05, Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

uhh, isn't this kind of circular?

"It gets the repo identifier from the files in the repo..." oh wait
>
> Zac
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