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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch
From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster () hartwork ! org>
Date: 2009-09-14 18:28:26
Message-ID: 4AAE8B4A.7080703 () hartwork ! org
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Because an overlay model has only a single foo-1.2. Think of it like
> stacks of paper. You've got your main repository:
>
> > > gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3
>
> and on top of that you put your overlay:
>
> > > extras foo-1.2 foo-1.4
> > > gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3
>
> and then looking down from the top, all an overlay model package
> manager sees is the foo-1.2 from the overlay. There's no
> foo-1.2::gentoo and foo-1.2::extras, there's just a single foo-1.2
> that's made from (gentoo + extras).
I see. So it would not work for dependencies but it should work for
masking. That alone wouldn't make me happy, though.
> There's a different way of looking at it that focuses more on the
> repository level view at [1].
>
> [1]: http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/distributed-distribution-development-and-why-git-and-or-funtoo-is-not-it/
>
Interesting read. Can you think of anything technical that would make
moving portage to this model impossible?
Sebastian
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