From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kbbj6-0004op-So for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:51:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC350E027F; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B50FE027F for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sheridan (dslc-082-082-176-079.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.176.79]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwh2-1Kbbj410f2-0007Be; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:51:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:50:27 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) Message-Id: <20080905155027.e1990563.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: References: <48B1CC3C.2000103@gentoo.org> <20080825201217.194fecad@googlemail.com> <48B309C2.1060204@gentoo.org> <200808252103.27006.levertond@googlemail.com> <20080826142044.28367055@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19mKamSmZwyZy1Yg9HE5fBncpMULAFV0uxwGOG YpRG2Fs7yd4un/AC0rzlHY+cRvPOWNZz9fc7q5qmvibYvuVzsy 2AUCeXoRSw6YXJvCflRFw== X-Archives-Salt: 012ffeb7-1812-4643-a1a6-3ec7c4927b15 X-Archives-Hash: efdd968cbf544610f5c566dd9a39b6e7 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