From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8Hvj-0005GW-Qa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:56:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67550E0326; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.zeelandnet.nl (smtp1.zeelandnet.nl [212.115.192.203]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCAFE0326 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.130] (cable-186-3.zeelandnet.nl [82.176.186.3]) by mail.zeelandnet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0FD184063 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 19:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A198A54.8030502@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:56:36 +0200 From: Ben de Groot Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support References: <8b4c83ad0905241020nd12a907ieccb43346cabc147@mail.gmail.com> <20090524182836.71ca9b6a@snowcone> <8b4c83ad0905241035v74cc53a1jadbb7b8babd6932@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0905241035v74cc53a1jadbb7b8babd6932@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f63fabc-3e68-4831-ba7d-f7a8f190bc48 X-Archives-Hash: ffbb5bbc5f40c9eba01be9f955c06523 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: >> On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:50:45 +0530 >> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >>> Won't this just lead to dependency hell? With horrible dependencies >>> between different overlays? >> It's primarily a user feature. It's not a good way of solving most >> inter-repository dependency issues. > > If that's the case (usage being command-line use), then I'm all for > it. But not in *DEPEND. > I'm also very much for it, especially for use in /etc/portage, to be able to mask/unmask a version from a specific overlay. -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________