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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:46:49
Message-Id: 200512140844.39644.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates by Grant Goodyear
1 On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:12, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > Jason Stubbs wrote: [Mon Dec 12 2005, 07:51:51PM CST]
3 > > > | As I said already, there will immediately be a bug asking for overlay
4 > > > | support. Portage already supports multiple in a form whether anybody
5 > > > | likes it or not. How they are supported and how they will change
6 > > > | should be of no concern to the glep. What should be of concern is
7 > > > | establishing a robust API between the readers and portage such that
8 > > > | future changes won't cause breakage.
9 >
10 > Wouldn't it suffice for the GLEP to simply have a statement that it will
11 > query portage for a list of repositories, once there's a way to do that,
12 > but until then the default repo will be assumed?
13
14 Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until after
15 several readers are written and force all of them become broken?
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