From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KD6kc-0007N9-Qr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:56:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCDC3E02FA; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B04DE02FA for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 485BD095012C4233 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:56:07 +0200 Message-ID: <48682119.9080201@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:56:09 +0200 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080507) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? References: <4867D6D9.5020301@gmail.com> <20080629195143.54e88d8d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <4867F460.2000504@gmail.com> <20080629223608.410771c4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <486806E4.2070202@gmail.com> <20080630001311.23a27392@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080630001311.23a27392@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 47981719-4256-4710-9996-2cd0ef6ef4b0 X-Archives-Hash: 3d0342945fbcff0660c7c803e918be58 Neil Bothwick ha scritto: >> And *why* does >> an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? > > Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is > applied to the system as a whole. Yes, I know. What I wondered, is if this is normal policy. It seems that an overlay messing with main portage tree is just asking for trouble. But again, I'll ask to the overlay guys. Thanks a lot as usual, m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list