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 1Mt1bF-0001NL-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9084E09C7; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (smtprelay02.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.36]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F8FE09C7 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.30.7] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt1al-0007bK-Fw for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:59:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC3808D.7010205@hartwork.org> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:13 +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] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org References: <4AC0FF26.4030608@hartwork.org> <20090930153906.070cf662@snowcone> <4AC37E66.5030708@hartwork.org> <20090930165340.79a93e46@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090930165340.79a93e46@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 46ae7eb6-61b0-47e3-bf14-12d5c20c72d4 X-Archives-Hash: b86bfa8d27cf69e4f9986ed04bb77521 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 > Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem >> like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with >> overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. That >> doesn't sound like fun to me. > > No, you can copy the data into your master file. It's just that the > original source of the data would be the repository, not the person > adding the repository to the list. If it can change, it needs to be kept in sync. I really don't think it belongs in there. Sebastian