On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:48, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:39:14 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | And how can that be adapted to work with overlays, completely > | ignoring the possibility of distinct repositories. Overlays is > | something that exists already and news support for them is a request > | that will appear as soon as news support is added. > > Overlays don't contain metadata directories
There's nothing preventing this. > and don't get synced, As Zac pointed out, esync exists. > so they don't contain news items. Neither of the points above prevent an overlay from containing news items. > Supporting news from multiple sources is something that's tied to supporting > packages from multiple sources, which overlay doesn't permit. Overlays are used for getting packages from multiple sources every day. The only thing preventing them from supporting getting news from multiple sources is your stubborness against adding a single level of indirection - a level of indirection that has absolutely no cost to readers. > Fixing that would require fixing portage to support multiple repositories > rather than using overlay, which is an issue for a different GLEP. I'll say it again. It wouldn't require a GLEP because the changes wouldn't go beyond portage. At least they wouldn't if you'd allow portage to keep its internals internal. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
