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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:47:51
Message-Id: 20051216054509.469b7d95@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Alec Warner
1 On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:36:54 -0500 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
2 wrote:
3 | emerge blar --repo=ciaranmssekritrepo
4 |
5 | This accomplishes the same thing, except I get to name the repo
6 | whatever I wish, and you lose the ability to specify repositories in
7 | DEPEND.
8
9 ...and it stops you from being able to package.mask things in a given
10 repository, and it stops you from being able to stick to a given
11 repository for world entries, and it stops you from being able to use
12 it in all those zillion other locations where you can currently use a
13 dep atom to do something useful.
14
15 Really, emerge blar::ciaranmssekritrepo with Portage creating the
16 'restricted' world entry (and the same behaviour for SLOT deps) would
17 be so much more useful...
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain)
21 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
22 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>