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Am Sonntag, den 24.05.2009, 20:04 +0200 schrieb lxnay@××××××××××××.org: |
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> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:04:08 +0200 (CEST) |
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> > lxnay@××××××××××××.org wrote: |
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> >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports |
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> >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a |
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> >> package from a specific repository. |
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> > @ is used by Portage for sets. Paludis has been using ::repo for repo |
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> > dependencies for years. Why not go with the established syntax? |
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> I wrote "postfix" not "prefix". Sets use "@" prefix. |
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> Regarding your "why", why not going through GLEP and gentoo-dev acceptance ;) ? |
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> >> Users of multiple repositories seem to appreciate the freedom that is |
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> >> brought with this small-but-effective(TM) feature. |
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> > Note that Portage doesn't support multiple repositories, so this one's |
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> > probably not very straight-forward... It supports overlays, which means |
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> > only one thing is ultimately visible for a c/p-v. |
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> I know. |
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> > -- |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh |
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> I am wondering if enabling @overlay postfix support could be just restricted to command line arguments, at least for the beginning. |
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And then it's a pm thing. So the person you want to talk about it is |
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zmedico. |
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Tiziano Müller |
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