On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:11:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| newsdir="$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/metadata/news"
| newsdir="$(portageq newsdir gentoo)"
| 
| Both have one level of indirection. The first has two hard coded
| elements. The first has one. Where is the massive over-indirection?
| 
| The second allows future changes. The first does not. Where does the 
| specification come into it? All that would be needed is to allow a
| user a method to name overlays and it'd be useful straight off the
| bat.

The former relies upon existing, widely used functionality together
with a well-defined path. The latter has some magic hard-coded name
voodoo (what's a 'gentoo'?) and is still stuck only supporting a single
location.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain)
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