Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Auty <mike.auty@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Package moves in overlays
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:15:29
Message-Id: 43C37B08.6010708@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Package moves in overlays by Marius Mauch
1 Ok,
2 Well, what if instead we were to try and treat the overlay trees as
3 exactly that, overlays. So the moves were used from the lowest layer
4 (ie the main tree) unless a higher up layer overrode them, could that
5 work? It would mean effectively that the overlay moves were global, but
6 I guess you'd then end up losing updates to the main tree if a file like
7 4Q-2005 was overridden...
8 Can anyone think of a pratical solution to this problem other than
9 either a major rework of portage's tree handling system, or by having
10 the two packages block each other and relying on the user to fix the
11 tree up manually whenever this happens? Any ideas would be welcome,
12 it's a problem I'd really like to fix. Thanks very much,
13 Mike 5:)
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