Brian Dolbec posted on Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:02 -0700 as excerpted: > Layman currently uses /var/lib/layman/overlay-name. It would be best I > feel to place them in one common location. I also feel the main tree > should be stored as the same name as it's repo_name value. > > If it is done in some fashion like that. The package managers could > also be modified to automatically scan the base directory for valid > repositories without the need to have them specifically configured in > make.conf. Not to say that they cannot be set in make.conf, but would be > required for anything outside of that base dir.
If auto-repo-scanning is added, I'd suggest also adding a make.conf OVERLAY_DISABLE value, so it's possible to temporarily disable an overlay without removing it (as it is now by simply removing that path from the PORTDIR_OVERLAY var, or commenting/moving that line out of the var- assignment quotes). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
