On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:04:08 +0200 (CEST) lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports > the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a > package from a specific repository.
@ is used by Portage for sets. Paludis has been using ::repo for repo dependencies for years. Why not go with the established syntax? > Users of multiple repositories seem to appreciate the freedom that is > brought with this small-but-effective(TM) feature. Note that Portage doesn't support multiple repositories, so this one's probably not very straight-forward... It supports overlays, which means only one thing is ultimately visible for a c/p-v. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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