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From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:17
Message-Id: 4AC3808D.7010205@hartwork.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200
3 > Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >> At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem
5 >> like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with
6 >> overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. That
7 >> doesn't sound like fun to me.
8 >
9 > No, you can copy the data into your master file. It's just that the
10 > original source of the data would be the repository, not the person
11 > adding the repository to the list.
12
13 If it can change, it needs to be kept in sync. I really don't think it
14 belongs in there.
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18 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>