On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > * Overlays > >> Not an issue: Exactly the information of that ebuild > >> which *would* be used if you reemerge contains > >> the relevant data. > > > > The association between an installed package and "the ebuild it came > > from" doesn't work correctly when overlays around. > > It doesn't have to: That ebuild which would be installed > *has* to carry the up-to-date information for that package. > Otherwise, the overlay is broken. An overlay is *not* a > different slot for a package.
Uh huh, so you add an overlay, and suddenly the dependencies for a random subset of your installed packages change in ways that don't in any way reflect what you have installed. How is this the desired behaviour? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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