* Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26
@ 2009-02-24 17:47 99% ` Brian Harring
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From: Brian Harring @ 2009-02-24 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: zmedico
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:26:48PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th
> Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @
> irc.freenode.net) !
Informal request, but it would be useful to get an idea of the
councils views on portage overlay compatibility issues.
Specifically, when it comes to gentoo repositories, there is one, and
only one definition of what that is- pms's repo spec. The problem
here is that the only repository truly conformant to that spec is
gentoo-x86, for the rest of the repositories (overlays realistically)
whatever portage supports seems to be the eventual standard they grow
towards.
Problem with this is that there is *zero* way to spot these non-pms
repositories as it stands. Simplest example, under portage overlays
can unmask pkgs globally (gnome overlay reverting masks in
gentoo-x86), package.unmask exists/works, package.keywords
exists/works, and package.mask can be a directory.
I've not traced through the mess of config's __init__ to verify
*every* pms noncompliance there, but I'd assume there are definitely a
couple more hanging around to blow up in alt managers faces.
At the very least I'm after having the non-pms repos marked in some
fashion so that alt implementations don't have to assume the portage
standard (rather then the *agreed to* pms standard) to avoid
exploding, but that's a rather short sighted solution- something is
needed long term.
Either way, I'd be curious about the councils *informal* opinion on
the overlay issue.
thanks,
~harring
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