On Friday 16 December 2005 14:57, Alec Warner wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > 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, > > Ideally there will be per-repo package.mask entries as well, since .mask > files are typically repository-based.
Exactly. > > 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 > > /var/lib/portage/world sucks on the whole. The plan is to tag what repo a package came from into the installed package database if I understand correctly. > > it in all those zillion other locations where you can currently use a > > dep atom to do something useful. > > Anything in particular other than "those other useful things"? On Friday 16 December 2005 12:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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... I don't see the need for this. Resolution will the same repository to satisfy a package's dependencies where possible. If you just want to be able to state that a package from one repository needs packages from a different repository, wouldn't something like REPO_URI="mirror://gentoo/repo" suffice just as well without making a mess of the atom syntax? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
