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 1LfDvK-0001JS-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:47:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AAB1E027F; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f175.google.com (mail-fx0-f175.google.com [209.85.220.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D813E027F for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so3117521fxm.34 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:47:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=r9BCbzhHu6/agw4qwHnDBQlFiwyUWA4/TamgcEKfews=; b=AswgMYHg3hiw56C1rfo0m/2ev3Y9mixqDahPBjRd98BiPvJxIw2l/SvyBqZxNw72fO SdJi2xK7CcAvOWTPkFdmO6eVStV8MZkDynVJTalA6Uz4oKyvtHzs+vhsUeCsTwwZIjTo 4DN42n0zJd7xJhC0pIEFrkcfyYqtAYlo3mHAA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ct8Z/4nvx86vtUfGzZ4tzwhhiVbT2IpaRjRB3RVkJG34ysc4Hmnv+opbJ0OCdh8j8Q T8tnkrj4UgI3FhZl2MOLnAugqjq2G2u+jOX8HNLbtzI6ASUG4sebD6UohQVGyc4Q+w2t +mSde+MxlXzhxSO/uQuozjH9tagiD750W3ucY= 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 Received: by 10.86.66.19 with SMTP id o19mr463395fga.60.1236260859384; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:47:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49AFA752.8060202@gentoo.org> References: <1235702483.8324.38.camel@localhost> <20090302164807.6324266c@snowcone> <49AF2CE8.3020508@gentoo.org> <49AF31C3.6090000@gentoo.org> <49AF3615.2020503@gentoo.org> <49AFA752.8060202@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:47:39 +0100 Message-ID: <6142e6140903050547y615d0f52i42053a30dc9dd7a1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays From: Daniel Pielmeier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 66c810f8-d527-45d8-93a2-e19ae3ab7753 X-Archives-Hash: 38b67fd4dd109b2bead580bbfef5ed37 2009/3/5 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) : > > The problem of ebuilds in one overlay not seeing ebuilds in another overlay, > would also be solved by the package manager NOT failing to see/notice/use/allow > ebuilds from all installed overlays. Then there would be no need for a hierarchy > among overlays. Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but why not making the profile only affect the corresponding repository and allow repository aware configuration (make.conf and /etc/portage/* in case of portage being the package manager)? That way repository based masking and unmasking would be possible. -- Regards, Daniel