On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:12, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: [Mon Dec 12 2005, 07:51:51PM CST] > > > | As I said already, there will immediately be a bug asking for overlay > > > | support. Portage already supports multiple in a form whether anybody > > > | likes it or not. How they are supported and how they will change > > > | should be of no concern to the glep. What should be of concern is > > > | establishing a robust API between the readers and portage such that > > > | future changes won't cause breakage. > > Wouldn't it suffice for the GLEP to simply have a statement that it will > query portage for a list of repositories, once there's a way to do that, > but until then the default repo will be assumed?
Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until after several readers are written and force all of them become broken? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
