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From: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:44:57
Message-Id: 4F732352.7010609@cs.stonybrook.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree by Kent Fredric
1 On 03/28/12 10:24, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 >>
3 >> Just use categories from repos?
4 >>
5 >> /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-devel/gcc-1.2.tar.bz2
6 >> /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/glibc-2.3.tar.bz2
7 >> /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/zlib-3.4.tar.bz2
8 >> /usr/portage/distfiles/zomg-soft/zomgawesomesoft-5.3.1.tar.xz
9 >> (from zomg repo with custom zomg-soft category ;)
10 >>
11 >> Btw. what would happen if, ie. mc package - well, two different
12 >> packages, one from app-misc, one from sci-libs - but lets say they have
13 >> a brand new release 5.0 and there's mc-5.0.tar.bz2 for both of them?
14 >>
15 >
16 > Yeah, as admittedly rare as that might be, thats why I didn't suggest
17 > grouping by category =)
18
19 This could cause problems for people using crossdev, because it relies
20 on overlays to work. If crossdev were to use symlinks, using
21 `eclean-dist -df` to remove things that are not needed by the main tree
22 could delete the targets of the symlinks. Hard links would work around
23 this, but then the distfiles for everything would need to be in the same
24 file system and that file system would need to support hard links.
25
26 The general sentiment that I have seen from Gentoo developers on IRC is
27 that overlays are bad and that they are meant for things that will
28 eventually be merged into the main tree. With that in mind, I am not
29 convinced that this is a problem worth fixing. The overlay owner is
30 supposed to prepare his things for inclusion into the main tree, so he
31 should handle it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>