On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:26:18 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have no problem with basically writing up 'fake' portageq calls. | However often people tell me overlays are important, they don't serve | as multipile repos and don't have metadata/news, so they are excluded | in this specification (intentially?). Portage doesn't do multiple | repo's so any repo-related call will be a 'fake' one, that just | returns the expected data, unless someone has a better method (looks | at other portage devs).
The reason all that stuff is there is because a certain former Portage developer refused to let the GLEP through unless it had it... You should take a look back at the dozens of emails he sent demanding its addition to see the rationale. | I would prefer to hear arguments about whether news items should be | posted to announce or to a seperate ML. I would also like to see | integration via a "news" link on p.g.o. I would be willing to assist | in the latter. Those kinds of things were beyond the scope of the GLEP, other than that the GLEP is specifically designed to make implementing them easy. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
