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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: overlays@g.o, qa@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: a few new rules for repositories in repositories.xml
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 08:31:40
Message-Id: CAJ0EP404Qz9n32xYbOZ=fsg=YPxqQk1QqX1B2vW-XyCLYA8QcQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] RFC: a few new rules for repositories in repositories.xml by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > 4. Repositories need to conform to at least basic rules enforced by the PMS or the common subset of features supported by Portage, pkgcore and Paludis.
3 >
4 > Rationale: we don't want things to blow up hard in users' faces when they happen to add some repository. Alternatively, we need to mark non-PMS repositories as such.
5
6 I think PMS conformance needs to be optional here.
7
8 There are some very prominent overlays in repositories.xml which
9 already do not conform to PMS. The kde overlay comes to mind.
10
11 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/metadata/layout.conf#n29

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