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 1MmvVi-0002Xp-B0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:17:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB671E06D6; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay10.ispgateway.de (smtprelay10.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9769E06D6 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.7.249] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay10.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MmvVf-00071y-NX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:17:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4AAD534F.3030207@hartwork.org> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:17:19 +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> <4AAD4BF7.8000806@hartwork.org> <20090913210259.1dfb36f7@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090913210259.1dfb36f7@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 81328155-c1bf-4866-b6d1-e2b9cfa3be2c X-Archives-Hash: ae3e273d4a4fe412741c4f983d51bebe Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Not quite. If both an overlay and the main tree provide foo-1.2, > masking foo-1.2::overlay in Portage would end up masking every foo-1.2. Why? > You also need proper multiple repository support to make it work; > merely adding repo dep specs on top of a pure overlay model isn't > enough. Please elaborate on that. Sebastian