From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j22CVcCW002553 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:31:39 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl ([131.174.33.75]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D6T0q-0007QO-NU for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:31:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF8F2E8F6C for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:30:13 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:30:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1109715352.3788.42.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1109715352.3788.42.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2500463.TlZmrFkBev"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503021330.11890.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: a130fbb0-55ed-41a9-8cc3-d5ec6afbc3f8 X-Archives-Hash: b1daaa0bfc26b70b02876b7dee30b66c --nextPart2500463.TlZmrFkBev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 01 March 2005 23:15, Stephen Bennett wrote: > As those who hang around in the mysterious realms of Portage > development may know, there's some feeling around that the current > system of virtual packages has some serious limitations. The > currently-proposed > alternative (as discussed previously, notably in > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/18922), involves a > system of metapackages. These would essentially consist of a > non-installable ebuild that consists entirely of a set of dependency > information. Once the dependencies for the metapackage are satisfied, > it's considered to be installed, and packages depending on it can go > ahead and be built. I see one feature that is really made more necessary for this. You want to= =20 be able to select ranges of package versions that can not directly be=20 gotten by using wildcards. That way you can do real version mapping. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart2500463.TlZmrFkBev Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCJbHTbKx5DBjWFdsRAp39AJsHX4z4Jynd9psGBJyXMMF7njrbpACeM4Kx 7BhBE/JESJcPsIzPhHNzRcY= =8G7b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2500463.TlZmrFkBev-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list