On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > [...] > >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports > >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a > >> package from a specific repository. > > > > @ is used by Portage for sets. Paludis has been using ::repo for repo > > dependencies for years. Why not go with the established syntax? > > I wrote "postfix" not "prefix". Sets use "@" prefix.
Your @ is still a prefix for the repository name. For usability's sake, please don't do this. I can imagine users getting confused over the different meanings of the @ sign. I do not want to trigger a discussion like the one PHP had when choosing namespace separators, but we got the "::" established in Paludis and Paludis is used by way more Gentoo people than equo. So it only seems logical to me to use the wider-known and at the same time ambiguity-free "operator". Alex
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