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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support
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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:50:45 +0530
> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Won't this just lead to dependency hell? With horrible dependencies
>> between different overlays?
>
> It's primarily a user feature. It's not a good way of solving most
> inter-repository dependency issues.
>
If that's the case (usage being command-line use), then I'm all for
it. But not in *DEPEND.
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~Nirbheek Chauhan