Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:50:45 +0530 >> Nirbheek Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Won't this just lead to dependency hell? With horrible dependencies >>> between different overlays? >> It's primarily a user feature. It's not a good way of solving most >> inter-repository dependency issues. > > If that's the case (usage being command-line use), then I'm all for > it. But not in *DEPEND. > I'm also very much for it, especially for use in /etc/portage, to be able to mask/unmask a version from a specific overlay.
-- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________
