On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:45:59 +0200 Sebastian Pipping <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander Færøy wrote: > >> Second issue: "I want foopackage and barpackage, but not your > >> hacked gcc" Overlays can overshadow tree packages, which can have > >> undesired effects. > > > > Support for overlay information in package.mask? > > Once we have repository-specific atoms we get that for free.
Not quite. If both an overlay and the main tree provide foo-1.2, masking foo-1.2::overlay in Portage would end up masking every foo-1.2. You also need proper multiple repository support to make it work; merely adding repo dep specs on top of a pure overlay model isn't enough. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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