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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: | Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:31:12 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4AB14B0B.4040406@hartwork.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] by Zac Medico |
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| 1 | Zac Medico wrote: |
| 2 | > It shouldn't be too difficult to tweak portage so that multiple |
| 3 | > ebuilds of the same version from different repositories are visible |
| 4 | > to portage's dependency resolver. Currently, it uses a collection of |
| 5 | > 3 repositories to resolve dependencies: installed, ebuild, and |
| 6 | > binary packages. Replacing the single ebuild repository (portdbapi |
| 7 | > class) instance with multiple instances, one for each overlay, |
| 8 | > should produce the desired result. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Sounds good. How long do you expect it to take? |
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| 13 | |
| 14 | Sebastian |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |