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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2009-09-16 21:21:07
Message-ID: 4AB156C3.80602 () gentoo ! org
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Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 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?

Not long. It seems like a reasonably useful feature, so I'll go
ahead and try to get it done sometime during the next few days. Then
I'll be able to include it in the portage-2.1.7 branch which I plan
to create soon. You can track progress on this bug:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262038
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Thanks,
Zac

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