On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:17:30 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | So what are you going to do? I asked already but you didn't answer. > | How are you going to find $PORTDIR/metadata/news? > > At present, by using portageq with a hardcoded suffix. If in the future > Portage introduces new functionality, then clients and the > specification can easily be updated to handle said functionality.
And how can that be adapted to work with overlays, completely ignoring the possibility of distinct repositories. Overlays is something that exists already and news support for them is a request that will appear as soon as news support is added. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
