On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:11:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | newsdir="$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/metadata/news" | newsdir="$(portageq newsdir gentoo)" | | Both have one level of indirection. The first has two hard coded | elements. The first has one. Where is the massive over-indirection? | | The second allows future changes. The first does not. Where does the | specification come into it? All that would be needed is to allow a | user a method to name overlays and it'd be useful straight off the | bat.
The former relies upon existing, widely used functionality together with a well-defined path. The latter has some magic hard-coded name voodoo (what's a 'gentoo'?) and is still stuck only supporting a single location. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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