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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] repo_name/layman-global.txt overlay name mismatches
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:57:11
Message-Id: 4A59DDA3.7030001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] repo_name/layman-global.txt overlay name mismatches by "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
2 > Sebastian Pipping wrote:
3 >> Problem
4 >
5 >> When the name from repo_name and the overlay name in layman-global.txt
6 >> do not match smolt would assume the overlay is secret though it's not
7 >> and not be able to send in stats about it.
8 >
9 > I understand your problem and agree that in general having the repo_name
10 > and the name in layman-global.txt the same would be helpful.
11 > However, there might be some history behind that.
12 > For example, although the official KDE team overlay is called kde
13 > (repo_name), on layman it still shows up as kde-testing. The reason for
14 > that is historic as kde was already used by genkdesvn.
15
16 Maybe the time has come to fix this issue?
17
18 Ben