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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch
From:       Sebastian Pipping <webmaster () hartwork ! org>
Date:       2009-09-16 20:31:07
Message-ID: 4AB14B0B.4040406 () hartwork ! org
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Zac Medico wrote:
> It shouldn't be too difficult to tweak portage so that multiple
> ebuilds of the same version from different repositories are visible
> to portage's dependency resolver. Currently, it uses a collection of
> 3 repositories to resolve dependencies: installed, ebuild, and
> binary packages. Replacing the single ebuild repository (portdbapi
> class) instance with multiple instances, one for each overlay,
> should produce the desired result.

Sounds good.  How long do you expect it to take?



Sebastian

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