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| From: | Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org> | ||
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| 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 20:17:22 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4AAD534F.3030207@hartwork.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] by Ciaran McCreesh |
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| 1 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 2 | > Not quite. If both an overlay and the main tree provide foo-1.2, |
| 3 | > masking foo-1.2::overlay in Portage would end up masking every foo-1.2. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Why? |
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| 7 | |
| 8 | > You also need proper multiple repository support to make it work; |
| 9 | > merely adding repo dep specs on top of a pure overlay model isn't |
| 10 | > enough. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Please elaborate on that. |
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| 14 | |
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| 16 | Sebastian |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> |