* Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26
@ 2009-02-25 12:42 99% ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue @ 2009-02-25 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 09:47 -0800, Brian Harring a écrit :
> 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),
I reply here as part of the gnome herd and partly responsible for the
mask reverting in the overlay. I didn't know something used in
gentoo-x86 couldn't be used in an overlay. Could you point me to the
PMS section that treat this ?
--
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo
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