On 12/16/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > | Brian agreed with you that the extended dep syntax will be necessary > > | at some point in the future. I also agree. So, knowing that glep 42 > > | doesn't require extended depset syntax, can we stop playing this game > > | and just settle on something like newsdir="$(portageq newsdir > > | gentoo)"? > > > > What the heck is this 'gentoo' thing, and how does it help? Shoving > > newsdir into portageq doesn't help *at all* with multiple repository > > support. > > > > Like I said in a previous email, 'gentoo' corresponds to 'magic-chicken' in > your news-magic-chicken.unread files. The news reader app gets the repo > identifier from the news-*.unread files and plugs that into portageq to get > the directory where the corresponding new items can be found.
uhh, isn't this kind of circular? "It gets the repo identifier from the files in the repo..." oh wait > > Zac > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
