Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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.
This functionality would come in very very handy. Would user assigned
repository names be able to mimic this functionality somehow?
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