Re: [gentoo-dev] draft glep: multi-repo

[Brian Harring]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:25:58PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:48 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
> wrote:
> | True stand alone repository capabilities aren't required/bound to
> | glep42, all that's required out of glep42 is that the syncing repo id
> | be used now (even if it may seem superfluous).  Iow, news *should*
> | work regardless if it's an overlay or a stand alone repo.
>
> Not quite true. I also need to know how to handle Display-If-Installed
> and Display-If-Profile headers with multiple repositories. Hence why
> I'd prefer to leave it as "something that can easily be implemented in
> the future"...

News is repo specific.  What I stated in the glep42 thread email 
covers this already; zmedico already adress Display-If-Profile 
(namely, a simple portageq extension).

What remaining straw men are there for ignoring the portage 
developers requests?
~harring