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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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  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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