From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j230ExtZ027904 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:15:01 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D6dzW-0006qx-VE for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:14:59 +0000 Received: from [10.21.12.200] (c-67-174-248-35.client.comcast.net[67.174.248.35]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005030300145801200s1vk7e>; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:14:58 +0000 Message-ID: <42265701.70902@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:14:57 -0800 From: James Northrup User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages References: <1109715352.3788.42.camel@localhost> <422628F8.8040807@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <422628F8.8040807@egr.msu.edu> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000304040303050502070806" X-Archives-Salt: 30b1ca01-bf39-4581-87e4-76b46020399a X-Archives-Hash: 1c936d7205540e454f427090d34d5eb7 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000304040303050502070806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------000304040303050502070806 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="glamdring-inc.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glamdring-inc.vcf" begin:vcard fn:james northrup n:northrup;james org:Glamdring Incorporated Enterprises adr:;;1406B Peralta Ave;Berkeley;CA;94702;US email;internet:james_northrup@comcast.net title:CTO tel;fax:(510) 725-4587 tel;home:(510) 725-4587 tel;cell:(408) 896-6239 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------000304040303050502070806-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list