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Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:50:45 +0530 |
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>> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Won't this just lead to dependency hell? With horrible dependencies |
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>>> between different overlays? |
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>> It's primarily a user feature. It's not a good way of solving most |
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>> inter-repository dependency issues. |
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> If that's the case (usage being command-line use), then I'm all for |
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> it. But not in *DEPEND. |
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I'm also very much for it, especially for use in /etc/portage, to be |
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able to mask/unmask a version from a specific overlay. |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison |
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