Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Conary

[John Nilsson]

> In short, the only way to guarantee that this doesn't happen is to have a
> central tree that has a minimum quality level.
>
> Paul
>

Ofcourse every Gentoo package would depend on
<http://packages.gentoo.org/...> packages. Howerver I thought this
thread was about "loose collaboration across the Internet" between
"distributed and loosely connected
repositories".

Lets say I define <http://www.example.com/virtual/x11> to be a list of
packages that I think is compatible with X11 dependent pacakges.
If a maintainer wants to use my list as a dependency he is also
responsible for any bugs resulting from that statement. He could also
state, say <http://packages.gentoo.org/x11-base/xorg-x11?ipv6#6.8.1> if
that is the onlything that works.

Thus I could "emerge http://www.example.com/pkgs/mod_php?
mysql&mysqli#5.0" and no PRTAGE_OVERLAY would be needed, and it could
even depend on http://www.mysql.com/unstable/mysql and no gentoo
specificas has yet been involved...

-John