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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:35:12
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0905241035v74cc53a1jadbb7b8babd6932@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:50:45 +0530
4 > Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
5 >> Won't this just lead to dependency hell? With horrible dependencies
6 >> between different overlays?
7 >
8 > It's primarily a user feature. It's not a good way of solving most
9 > inter-repository dependency issues.
10 >
11
12 If that's the case (usage being command-line use), then I'm all for
13 it. But not in *DEPEND.
14
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17 ~Nirbheek Chauhan

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