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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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> 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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Fabio Erculiani |
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