Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Zac Medico a écrit :
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to
>> indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected on
>> the command line. This is behavior is somewhat difficult to describe
>> in words but the following example should be sufficient to convey
>> the general idea.
> 
> As one of the maintainers of the gnome-base/gnome meta, I fail to see
> the usefulness of such a change. We have yet to ask users to rebuild
> "gnome" completely. Do you have any specific use cases (maybe coming
> from the KDE herd, since you used the kde meta as an example) ?
> 
> The one thing that bothers me about this is consistency: if, say, xfce
> (let's change ;) ) decides to use PROPERTIES=set, users will have a
> different experience with their ebuild than with the other metas we
> currently ship.
> 
> All in all, I'm not really against such a change, however I really fail
> to see the win for everyone, end-users included.

Over the course of the discussion I've revised the idea so that it
essentially represents a way to define a package set, without any
changes to existing behavior. What will change is that we will have
a new way to define package sets, based on ebuilds.
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Thanks,
Zac
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