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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Because an overlay model has only a single foo-1.2. Think of it like |
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> stacks of paper. You've got your main repository: |
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> ::gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3 |
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> and on top of that you put your overlay: |
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> ::extras foo-1.2 foo-1.4 |
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> ::gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3 |
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> and then looking down from the top, all an overlay model package |
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> manager sees is the foo-1.2 from the overlay. There's no |
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> foo-1.2::gentoo and foo-1.2::extras, there's just a single foo-1.2 |
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> that's made from (gentoo + extras). |
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I see. So it would not work for dependencies but it should work for |
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masking. That alone wouldn't make me happy, though. |
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> There's a different way of looking at it that focuses more on the |
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> repository level view at [1]. |
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> [1]: http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/distributed-distribution-development-and-why-git-and-or-funtoo-is-not-it/ |
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Interesting read. Can you think of anything technical that would make |
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moving portage to this model impossible? |
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Sebastian |