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On Monday 12 December 2005 09:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:44:00 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be |
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> | concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the |
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> | news.unread file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, |
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> | regardless of how repositories are implemented. |
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> See, this is exactly why I'm not wanting to care about multiple repo |
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> details at this point. There's no specification of how they work and |
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> what exactly they're supposed to do, and to make matters worse the way |
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> you seem to think they'll be handled is a really really bad way of |
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> doing it. |
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Regardless of what you think about the current plans for multiple repository |
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support, the details that readers will need to know wont change. |
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> | Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I |
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> | guarantee bugs about support for this in portage overlays. With the |
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> | above, we would be able to add that support. Without it, all we can |
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> | do is put a big CANTFIX. |
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> Overlay is not the same as multiple repository support. |
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There's no difference as far as readers go. |
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> | In that case, the data should probably not be in /var/lib/portage and |
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> | definitely not specified in the GLEP. It has nothing to do with |
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> | portage (the app) and isn't a requirement on readers. What if a |
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> | reader wants to keep track of what date an item was read on? Or any |
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> | other metadata? A new file would need to be created anyway due to |
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> | format constrainst placed on news.read... |
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> Hrm. Does the GLEP need to cover how news readers that want to keep |
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> track of whether or not the sysadmin was wearing pants last tuesday |
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> should work too? |
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Nope, which is why news.read shouldn't be specified. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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