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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:59:28
Message-Id: 20090302235913.21375f90@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:55:38 +0100
2 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
3 > We didn't implement anything but let's just talk about what we wanted
4 > to see. We simply wanted overlay users to keep testing gnome 2.24
5 > components that were masked or using masked packages in
6 > base/package.mask so we just made sure those packages had the proper
7 > keyword visibility.
8
9 So if you could mask 'testing'ish things that're in the overlay
10 (already possible), and provide an easy, consistent way for users who
11 choose to to unmask and keyword a particular group of packages, would
12 that solve the problem?
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository stacking and complementary overlays Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>