Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-24 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2018.02.24 01:32, Michael Lienhardt wrote: > > > Il 23/02/2018 20:37, Alec Warner ha scritto: > > My general observation is that Gentoo is not successful as an > organization about deprecating and removing things. One area where > Gentoo has done well is in EAPI and in PMS itself, with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:36:07 +0100 Michael Lienhardt wrote: > I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some > details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. I thus > have several questions on how multiple repositories work in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Michael Lienhardt
Il 23/02/2018 20:37, Alec Warner ha scritto: My general observation is that Gentoo is not successful as an organization about deprecating and removing things. One area where Gentoo has done well is in EAPI and in PMS itself, with mostly-clear versioning and standards and whatnot. But in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Michael Lienhardt
Thank you for your answers :). I have few followup questions. Il 23/02/2018 19:09, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov ha scritto: Or in other word, it is enough to only look at /etc/portage/repos.conf? No What else should I look for? - is the package.mask file apply only on the packages of that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Michael Lienhardt < michael.lienha...@laposte.net> wrote: > I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some > details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. > I thus have several questions on how multiple repositories work in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
> Or in other word, it is enough to only look at /etc/portage/repos.conf? No > In general, an overlay is a repository, i.e., a valid tree layout for the Yes > - can the profiles in a repository different from DEFAULT be selected? Yes > - is the package.mask file apply only on the packages of

[gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-23 Thread Michael Lienhardt
I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. I thus have several questions on how multiple repositories work in portage. 1. My understanding was that /etc/portage/repos.conf replaced the PORTDIR_OVERLAY