On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34:05 -0500 Andrew Muraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 2. What choices/options are on the table for this feature?
The big controversy seems to be over whether repositories carry a unique identifier string (for example, in metadata/repository_id) or whether it's user-assigned. The former is clearly the more sensible option, since it lets you do things like (syntax made up): DEPEND=">=foo-bar/baz-2.1::ciaranmssekritrepo" which would add a restriction that only packages in ciaranmssekritrepo would be considered. This only works if the repository knows its own identifier, however... Incidentally, the ::repo syntax (or whatever) would also be useful in the world file, along with :slot. So something like: foo-bar/baz:2::ciaranmssekritrepo would tell the package manager that you want baz SLOT 2 from ciaranmssekritrepo. *shrug* But it seems the Portage guys want repository names to be user-assigned, which makes them far less useful. -- 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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