Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 09:47 -0800, Brian Harring a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:26:48PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > > irc.freenode.net) ! > > Informal request, but it would be useful to get an idea of the > councils views on portage overlay compatibility issues. > > Specifically, when it comes to gentoo repositories, there is one, and > only one definition of what that is- pms's repo spec. The problem > here is that the only repository truly conformant to that spec is > gentoo-x86, for the rest of the repositories (overlays realistically) > whatever portage supports seems to be the eventual standard they grow > towards. > > Problem with this is that there is *zero* way to spot these non-pms > repositories as it stands. Simplest example, under portage overlays > can unmask pkgs globally (gnome overlay reverting masks in > gentoo-x86),
I reply here as part of the gnome herd and partly responsible for the mask reverting in the overlay. I didn't know something used in gentoo-x86 couldn't be used in an overlay. Could you point me to the PMS section that treat this ? -- Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> Gentoo
