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 1Mmv1O-0007FM-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:46:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2974EE0960; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de (smtprelay06.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.40]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2167E0960 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.7.249] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay06.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmv1M-0005XB-22 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:46:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4AAD4BF7.8000806@hartwork.org> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:45:59 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090820) 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] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4AACCDBF.5020207@gentoo.org> <4AACD7C5.2080703@gentoo.org> <200909132057.48975.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090913192513.GA26237@anubis.0x90.dk> In-Reply-To: <20090913192513.GA26237@anubis.0x90.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Df-Sender: 874396 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 73d27eb0-d49e-4952-8e31-911b262fee27 X-Archives-Hash: 82ca5a07ffe1d25dab975355f5debb75 Alexander F=E6r=F8y wrote: >> Second issue: "I want foopackage and barpackage, but not your hacked g= cc" >> Overlays can overshadow tree packages, which can have undesired effect= s. >=20 > Support for overlay information in package.mask? Once we have repository-specific atoms we get that for free. Maybe we can not make it take ages somehow. Sebastian