On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:48:53 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:18:51 AM EDT Kent Fredric wrote:
> > There's a lot of "but what if you care!??!" things, perhaps this may be
> > an important one to you, but some people care a lot about LICENSE and
> > some people just don't.  
> 
> Yes, and some care about what repo it comes from. Which is why portage now 
> shows you what repo it comes from as part of merge output. This is really no 
> different.

No.

Portage shows the repo it comes from because it is necessary for
the package specification to be unique, i.e. two repositories can
provide the same version of the same package.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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