Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

[Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/22/2009 05:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 08/22/2009 05:39 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>>> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>>>> Commits are done automatically, triggering and pushing is
>>>> manual at the moment.
>>>
>>> By now a cron-based setup is running syncing the pure-funtoo overlay
>>> (and therefore also its atom and rss feeds) every 24 hours.
>>
>> There seems to be a bit of (minimal) duplication between pure-funtoo and
>> sunrise.
> 
> Uhm, I just discovered that there are conflicts with portage too.  That 
> is not good.  After I added pure-funtoo, it messed up my emerge -u world 
> (stuff like wanting to upgrade to sys-apps/baselayout-2.1.5).
> 
> pure-funtoo should not offer packages available in portage (sunrise is 
> the lesser evil).

Huh? This is true of all overlays. If my overlay had baselayout-5.0 in 
it, you would be upgrading to that version if you had my overlay... By 
nature of overlays themselves, you should know what you are doing and 
how to handle it (ie. mask >=sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1)

-Jeremy