Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 09.05 +0300, Eray Aslan ha scritto: > > On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem > right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their > package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much > to > track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing > whether it works.
Okay this is tricky. >From one side, we've done this before. Do note: we are _not_ going to accept forced or non-use-masked dependencies for packages that are not in tree, but || () dependencies on non-existing packages have been used before, for instance while Gentoo/FreeBSD was still in its original development. On the other hand handling the current new-style virtual mess is enough of a task without having to bend over backward to overlays. As long as _somebody_ feels like doing the work, I suppose it's fine. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
