On 20/05/16 11:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> >>> ...and the user has this in their install.mask file: >>> >>> [bash-completion] >>> path=/some/other/path >>> desc=some other description >>> >> >> I don't think that's allowed; the groups are specified by each >> repository's metadata/install-mask.conf, not by the users. >> >> Although, you can ask the same question about overlays that have >> group-name clashes. Is that an error, or would we use the one from the >> overlay? > > Oh, you are correct. Originally I planned to handle that, and I forgot > about it. > > Since there can be multiple paths, we have two options: either > override, or amend like systemd does with *.d files. I think the former > would be less surprising. > > Override is simple -- entry from next file overrides previous, > and discards all data. > > Amending is harder. Description from next file overrides former, but > paths are appended. But there is special 'path=' (empty) that discards > all previous values and starts over. I don't think that's really a good > idea for repos.
I'd vote override, simply because it would match the same behaviour seen with eclasses and we could leverage the same 'masters =' in repos.conf to manage order when dealing with multiple repos.
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