On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:44:00 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be | concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the | news.unread file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, | regardless of how repositories are implemented.
See, this is exactly why I'm not wanting to care about multiple repo details at this point. There's no specification of how they work and what exactly they're supposed to do, and to make matters worse the way you seem to think they'll be handled is a really really bad way of doing it. | Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I | guarantee bugs about support for this in portage overlays. With the | above, we would be able to add that support. Without it, all we can | do is put a big CANTFIX. Overlay is not the same as multiple repository support. | In that case, the data should probably not be in /var/lib/portage and | definitely not specified in the GLEP. It has nothing to do with | portage (the app) and isn't a requirement on readers. What if a | reader wants to keep track of what date an item was read on? Or any | other metadata? A new file would need to be created anyway due to | format constrainst placed on news.read... Hrm. Does the GLEP need to cover how news readers that want to keep track of whether or not the sysadmin was wearing pants last tuesday should work too? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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