On Monday 25 May 2009, Ben de Groot wrote: > Robert Buchholz wrote: > > If we use repo_name as the overlay identifier, we must rethink how > > layman-global.txt is currently handled. Many overlays in there have > > that file missing, and some have different identifiers than what > > layman displays as their name. > > I think layman should simply start to use the repo_name as > identifier. That should result in less confusion, I'd think. Overlays > that miss the repo_name file are broken and should be fixed, and > should be ignored until they are.
Unfortunately, that value is not known until the repository is checked out. Doing that on every "list" operation would be too much overhead. We do need a script to verify the layman list, nevertheless. (Don't look at me for this! :-) Robert
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