Bug 246113

Summary:	Layman doesn't show haskell overlay if you don't have darcs installed (I think?)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Eddie Parker <gentoobugs.eddieparker>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	desultory
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eddie Parker 2008-11-09 00:07:50 UTC

Hello!

The summary says what I've noticed.  I was attempting to get the haskell overlay installed, but I didn't see it in layman -L, yet I saw it in the overlay on the website.  I tried removing my cache, no avail.

I then noticed it uses 'darcs', which I didn't have installed.  Installing it (as well as ghc, which I didn't have installed - perhaps it's ghc that's the missing requirement?) now shows the haskell overlay.

This may or may not be a bug -- I only mention it here as I'm not certain a better venue for discussing what might be a 'usage' bug.  Basically I assumed that layman didn't care about system requirements, just gave me a list of overlays I could use.

From a 'use' case standpoint, I'd like to have all overlays available, and then have it give me an error about not having darcs installed so I can fix that.

Anyhow, feel free to discuss or tell me I'm wrong. :)  Just thought I'd put a users viewpoint in there.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-09 00:20:20 UTC

It intentionally only presents overlays which are available given the current configuration of the system unless the -k option, or its long form --nocheck, is used. Given that, this does not appear to be a bug.