On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > It does not other the the metadata.dtd file it checks for updates and > updates itself with. But that is very likely to change with the > rewrite I have in progress (albeit slowly). I have also seriously been > contemplating splitting off it's release from the main portage package. >
Now I remember the conversations. Having repoman rules at the repository level, local system level, and a few others (I forget where the thread was). Overlays can have their own rules, and so on. It doesn't make sense to update portage every time there is a new QA policy. -- Rich
