From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:26:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080928212602.76145b4e@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DFC20F.4040107@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:42:39 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Some some sort of mapping of packages into sets space does seem
> better than changing the behavior of these packages other cases.
> However, PROPERTIES=set will still be useful for governing
> recursion, since recursion into dependencies is probably not desired
> for non-meta packages in the same sense that it might be desired for
> meta-packages.
So you're saying that if a package depends upon all of foo, and a user
wants to do a deep or empty tree reinstall, all of foo shouldn't get
upgraded or reinstalled?
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-28 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 0:21 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets Zac Medico
2008-09-28 15:24 ` Marius Mauch
2008-09-28 17:42 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 20:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-09-28 20:44 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 20:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-28 20:53 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 21:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-28 22:11 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 22:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-28 22:56 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 23:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-28 23:37 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-29 15:13 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2008-09-29 19:52 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-30 4:47 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-09-30 5:31 ` Zac Medico
2008-10-01 4:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-10-01 16:37 ` Zac Medico
2008-10-02 2:51 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-10-04 6:05 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-04 6:42 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-04 17:17 ` Zac Medico
2008-10-05 17:55 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-13 2:11 ` Steve Long
2008-10-02 12:19 ` Robert Bridge
2008-09-29 2:52 ` Duncan
2008-09-29 6:40 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-29 11:52 ` Duncan
2008-09-29 6:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rémi Cardona
2008-09-29 6:33 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-29 19:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-09-29 20:28 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-29 20:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
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