Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Because an overlay model has only a single foo-1.2. Think of it like > stacks of paper. You've got your main repository: > > ::gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3 > > and on top of that you put your overlay: > > ::extras foo-1.2 foo-1.4 > ::gentoo foo-1.1 foo-1.2 foo-1.3 > > and then looking down from the top, all an overlay model package > manager sees is the foo-1.2 from the overlay. There's no > foo-1.2::gentoo and foo-1.2::extras, there's just a single foo-1.2 > that's made from (gentoo + extras).
I see. So it would not work for dependencies but it should work for masking. That alone wouldn't make me happy, though. > There's a different way of looking at it that focuses more on the > repository level view at [1]. > > [1]: > http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/distributed-distribution-development-and-why-git-and-or-funtoo-is-not-it/ Interesting read. Can you think of anything technical that would make moving portage to this model impossible? Sebastian
