On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:36:54 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | emerge blar --repo=ciaranmssekritrepo | | This accomplishes the same thing, except I get to name the repo | whatever I wish, and you lose the ability to specify repositories in | DEPEND.
...and it stops you from being able to package.mask things in a given repository, and it stops you from being able to stick to a given repository for world entries, and it stops you from being able to use it in all those zillion other locations where you can currently use a dep atom to do something useful. Really, emerge blar::ciaranmssekritrepo with Portage creating the 'restricted' world entry (and the same behaviour for SLOT deps) would be so much more 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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