From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:50:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080905155027.e1990563.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2008.08.26.14.20.07@cox.net>
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:20:07 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> I therefore believe I like just moving them all to a *virtual*/
> category better, thus obviating the need for that particular property
> in the first place.
I strongly belive that it's a horrible idea to add special meanings to
certain (hardcoded) category names in the package manager.
Technically, names (including categories) should only be used as
identifiers, not as classifiers.
Marius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 21:01 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) Zac Medico
2008-08-25 17:51 ` Michal Kurgan
2008-08-25 18:01 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-25 18:37 ` Michal Kurgan
2008-08-25 18:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-25 19:06 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-25 19:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-25 19:36 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-25 19:58 ` Joe Peterson
2008-08-25 20:03 ` David Leverton
2008-08-26 6:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-08-26 13:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-26 14:20 ` Duncan
2008-08-26 17:44 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-27 0:08 ` Duncan
2008-08-27 1:49 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-27 2:23 ` Michal Kurgan
2008-08-27 3:16 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-27 4:18 ` Zac Medico
2008-08-27 3:51 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-08-30 9:59 ` Steve Long
2008-08-30 12:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-31 2:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-31 12:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-31 19:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Joe Peterson
2008-08-31 21:54 ` Duncan
2008-09-05 13:50 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2008-09-05 13:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Marius Mauch
2008-09-05 15:38 ` Joe Peterson
2008-09-05 15:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-05 15:50 ` Joe Peterson
2008-09-08 21:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-09-08 22:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-10 1:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
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