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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: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080929000257.7bfd0905@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E00B9B.3060600@gentoo.org>

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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:56:27 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> As I've tried to explain, the an ebuild which exhibits
> PROPERTIES=set doesn't necessarily have to behave any differently
> than a meta-package currently does. What we would do is create a
> configuration that maps the set-property ebuild into set space. For
> example, `emerge kde-meta` would behave as as normal meta-package
> currently does, and `emerge @kde-meta` would reference the same
> package as a set and could thereby trigger different behavior which
> is appropriate for a set.

...and what would that behaviour be? What does a PDEPEND mean for a
set?

> > Here's an alternate proposal: Repositories can ship sets via files
> > in sets/*.conf. The format is as described in [1]. In configuration
> > files, operations applied to a set are applied to anything matching
> > any spec listed in that set (or any set that set contains, and so
> > on). On the command line, sets and non-sets cannot be mixed, and
> > multiple sets cannot be specified.
> > 
> > [1]: http://paludis.pioto.org/configuration/sets.html
> > 
> 
> Perhaps can use something like you've got there in addition to the
> PROPERTIES=set approach.

Why the need for multiple solutions at all? PROPERTIES=set is too weird
and involves too much nonsensical behaviour to be useful.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-28 23:03 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
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 [this message]
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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