From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:55:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC3A4E3.3010604@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100412180053.GI16738@hrair>
On 04/12/2010 11:00 AM, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:30:21PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
>> A reasonable alternative would be to have a separate variable in make.conf,
>> such as ECLASS_OVERLAY_DIRS, which specifies acceptable overlays for eclasses.
>>
>> In most cases, users would probably only have their own, local overlay there,
>> and any eclasses found there should be used in preference to any in portage
>> or in the overlay the ebuild came from, if applicable.
>>
>> Every time portage looks for an eclass, it should check there first (caching
>> what it found, to save future lookups w/in that run) and just use anything
>> it finds.
>
> repos.conf has functionality of this sort, although you'll have to
> consult the man page for the exact option name...
It's called eclass-overrides and it's been mentioned earlier in the
thread.
--
Thanks,
Zac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 11:11 [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass Torsten Veller
2010-03-30 15:48 ` Alec Warner
2010-04-03 10:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2010-04-01 23:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2010-04-02 0:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2010-04-02 0:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2010-04-02 0:17 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-02 0:25 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-06 14:22 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 18:39 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-12 17:17 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 17:30 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 18:00 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-12 22:55 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2010-04-16 20:00 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 22:47 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-16 20:23 ` James Cloos
2010-04-16 20:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-17 3:30 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2010-04-17 7:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-18 3:28 ` James Cloos
2010-04-18 7:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-19 20:59 ` James Cloos
2010-04-19 21:46 ` Harald van Dijk
2010-04-23 15:14 ` James Cloos
2010-04-25 6:16 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-03 10:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2010-04-04 8:25 ` Michael Higgins
2010-04-06 14:27 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 14:52 ` Duncan
2010-04-10 0:40 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 14:25 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 16:00 ` Michał Górny
2010-04-10 0:34 ` James Cloos
2010-04-17 20:07 ` Torsten Veller
2010-04-12 8:07 ` Christian Faulhammer
2010-04-12 9:03 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-20 6:49 ` Torsten Veller
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