On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:45:39AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/06/2017 12:46 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Friday, January 6, 2017 9:14:54 AM EST Alec Warner wrote: > >> > >> The nice thing about ::graveyard or similar is that its a clear demarcation > >> between maintained (in tree) and unmaintained (graveyard.) It also means > >> that people doing actual maintenance work can basically ignore the > >> graveyard as a matter of policy. The ebuilds are archived there (for users) > >> but since they are unmaintained they may not work correctly. > > > > This is what the Java team used to do. There was a java-graveyard-overlay. > > I > > do not believe any package ever moved there came back into the tree. It did > > result in a pretty messed up overlay, but makes it a user problem. > > > > At the same time, something could always be restored from VC. Not like > > removal > > is removing all history and traces. Thus not sure such overlay is really > > even > > beneficial. Using it could cause lots of problems if they just care about 1 > > package or a few. > > > > There's a nice trick around that, actually: let's assume the overlay is > called "foo-overlay". > > In package.mask: > > */*::foo-overlay > > will mask all packages in the overlay. You can then add packages to > package.unmask: > > pkg-cat/foobar::foo-overlay > > That should alleviate most issues, though it can make dependencies a > PITA if those deps are also in the overlay. In that case, emerge should > yell at you and suggest adding lines to package.unmask.
Another option would be to set the priority of the overlay to -1001 (one less than gentoo.git) and explicitly emerge the package from the overlay: emerge -a pkg-cat/foobar::foo-overlay Dependencies will by default be drawn from gentoo.git (if it has equal or better version(s)), and overlay-only dependencies won't need to be explicitly unmasked. You may end up with gentoo.git-provided packages coming from the overlay if they have newer versions, though when talking about graveyard, that shouldn't be an issue. -- Sam Jorna (wraeth) GPG ID: 0xD6180C26
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