Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future]
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:46:02
Message-Id: 4AAD4BF7.8000806@hartwork.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] by "Alexander Færøy"
1 Alexander Færøy wrote:
2 >> Second issue: "I want foopackage and barpackage, but not your hacked gcc"
3 >> Overlays can overshadow tree packages, which can have undesired effects.
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5 > Support for overlay information in package.mask?
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7 Once we have repository-specific atoms we get that for free.
8 Maybe we can not make it take ages somehow.
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12 Sebastian

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