Jason Stubbs wrote:
Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the news.unread file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, regardless of how repositories are implemented.
Expanding on this a little further then, we would have a file in a standard location such as /var/lib/portage-news/repos.desc that maps repository identifiers to the absolute paths of news directories (no hard coding of metadata/news/). This will provide a layer of indirection so that the portage news add-on will be able to direct news readers to the proper locations, regardless of repository implementation details.
Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I guarantee bugs about support for this in portage overlays. With the above, we would be able to add that support. Without it, all we can do is put a big CANTFIX.
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the data should probably not be in /var/lib/portage
I would also prefer that /var/lib/portage/ be reserved for core portage functionality (package management) and that non-essential add-ons store their data elsewhere. Zac -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
