On Saturday, February 01, 2014 20:38:05 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 
wrote:
> Suggested behavior:
> - Support for new 'updates-masters' attribute in metadata/layout.conf.

makes sense

>   If this attribute is not set explicitly, then it defaults to value of
> 'masters' attribute.

this i'm not so sure about.  when you have a local overlay, portage complains 
when there are no masters which means most people have just blindly added 
"masters = gentoo".  but if they have packages in there using the old name (on 
purpose), then updates will constantly tromp on that.

at least, there should be one of:
 - one-time automatic migration of existing layout.conf files where we set 
"updates-master =" for them.
 - a warning phase where we complain if the field isn't set, and we default to 
current behavior.  once some time has elapsed, we stop warning and we change 
the default.
-mike