From: James Northrup <glamdring-inc@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:14:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42265701.70902@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422628F8.8040807@egr.msu.edu>
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Alec Warner wrote:
> Stephen Bennett wrote:
>
>> Anyway, with portage development as it is now, this got brought up
>> again, and the current state of the GLEP can be found at
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spb/metapkg-glep.txt. Comments/suggestions/flames
>> welcome.
>
> As long as you keep the PROVIDES line in the ebuild. Assuming repoman
> does full tree check when commiting it can make sure that all
> packages that PROVIDE virtual also exist in the metapackage. That
> would be my only concern, people forgetting to add lines to the
> correct files :)
>
Metapackages: good.
120 meg rsync: bad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-03 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 22:15 [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages Stephen Bennett
2005-03-02 12:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-03-02 20:58 ` Alec Warner
2005-03-03 0:14 ` James Northrup [this message]
2005-03-06 17:40 ` Dan Armak
2005-03-06 18:12 ` Stephen Bennett
2005-03-06 19:20 ` Dan Armak
2005-03-07 10:26 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-03-07 17:45 ` Stephen Bennett
2005-03-15 12:21 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
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