Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: repositories.xml = repo name=sping quality=experimental status=unofficial descriptionGentoo overlay of Sebastian Pipping/description

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:23:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: Now please ask questions and let us know what you think. Here's an alternative idea: * Move the repository information into the overlays themselves. Require overlays to provide a file containing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: repositories.xml = repo name=sping quality=experimental status=unofficial descriptionGentoo overlay of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-09-2009 17:36:47 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: repositories.xml = repo name=sping quality=experimental

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:23:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: Now please ask questions and let us know what you think. Here's an alternative idea: * Move the repository information into the overlays themselves. Require overlays to provide a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. That doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Fabian Groffen wrote: Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element. Why having attributes in the first place anyway? It's closer to the original layman-global.txt which also makes the converter scripts simpler (and faster) than

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:13 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem like a good idea to. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Zac Medico wrote: I propose support for license groups in ebuilds then, I guess. That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do something like LICENSE=@GPL-2+ and that will expand to whatever the definition of the GPL-2+ license group happens to be. When a new version of GPL