On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:04:08 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] 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?
I wrote "postfix" not "prefix". Sets use "@" prefix. Regarding your "why", why not going through GLEP and gentoo-dev acceptance ;) ?
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.
I know.
-- Ciaran McCreesh
I am wondering if enabling @overlay postfix support could be just restricted to command line arguments, at least for the beginning. -- Fabio Erculiani
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