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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:23:09 -0600
From: Michal Kurgan <moloh@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages
 (clarification of definition)
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:12 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The PROPERTIES approach still seems a lot simpler and practical to
> me. It seems to me that the approach involving categories introduces
> needless complexity without bringing any really useful benefits.

Could you elaborate on this categories complexity? I think that the idea =
is to
just use already available categories, not implementing additional PROPER=
TY
for this functionality.

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Michal Kurgan
http://dev.gentoo.org/~moloh