Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 20/05/16 11:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> ...and the user has this in their install.mask file:
>>>
>>> [bash-completion]
>>> path=/some/other/path
>>> desc=some other description
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that's allowed; the groups are specified by each
>> repository's metadata/install-mask.conf, not by the users.
>>
>> Although, you can ask the same question about overlays that have
>> group-name clashes. Is that an error, or would we use the one from the
>> overlay?
> 
> Oh, you are correct. Originally I planned to handle that, and I forgot
> about it.
> 
> Since there can be multiple paths, we have two options: either
> override, or amend like systemd does with *.d files. I think the former
> would be less surprising.
> 
> Override is simple -- entry from next file overrides previous,
> and discards all data.
> 
> Amending is harder. Description from next file overrides former, but
> paths are appended. But there is special 'path=' (empty) that discards
> all previous values and starts over. I don't think that's really a good
> idea for repos.


I'd vote override, simply because it would match the same behaviour
seen with eclasses and we could leverage the same 'masters =' in
repos.conf to manage order when dealing with multiple repos.




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