Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Zac Medico wrote: >> I propose support for license groups in ebuilds then, I guess. > > That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do > something like LICENSE="@GPL-2+" and that will expand to whatever > the definition of the GPL-2+ license group happens to be. When a new > version o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Sure. Just periodically fetch the repository centrally. Have a master > list of sync URLs with expected repository names, and use that to > generate the full master list that includes metadata. > > Added bonus: you can quickly remove any repository that no longer > exists.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:13 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 > > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not > >> seem like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 > Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem >> like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with >> overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. That >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Fabian Groffen wrote: > Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an > attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element. Why having attributes > in the first place anyway? It's closer to the original layman-global.txt which also makes the converter scripts simpler (and faster) th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not seem > like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working with > overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. That > doesn't sound like fun to me.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:23:34 +0200 > Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> Now please ask questions and let us know what you think. > > Here's an alternative idea: > > * Move the repository information into the overlays themselves. Require > overlays to provide a file containing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-09-2009 17:36:47 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Tiziano Müller wrote: > > Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: > >> repositories.xml > >> = > >>>> name="sping" > >> quality="exp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Tiziano Müller wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: >> repositories.xml >> = >> > name="sping" >> quality="experimental" >> status="unofficial"> >> Gentoo overlay of Seb

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:23:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Now please ask questions and let us know what you think. Here's an alternative idea: * Move the repository information into the overlays themselves. Require overlays to provide a file containing the description, homepage, owner in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-30 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: > repositories.xml > = > name="sping" > quality="experimental" > status="unofficial"> > Gentoo overlay of Sebastian Pipping > http://git