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.

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Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison
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