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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:14:49
Message-Id: 20110423130854.64611a48@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? by Thomas Sachau
1 On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:07:21 +0200
2 Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
3 > It may be no issue as long as the virtual does not change that much
4 > or as long as not more than 1 overlay forks the virtual. But as
5 > already written in Bugzilla, you create an issue for users, if you
6 > have 2 overlays added, which both provide the package. Simple
7 > example, which i presented in Bugzilla:
8
9 That's solved by giving Portage proper multi-repository support. Wasn't
10 that one of last year's Summer of Code projects?
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh

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