From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 847531382C5 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05A58E09E1; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0BC1E09B4 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16601335C2E for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:32:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Merge 7 Fedora wallpapers packages to single one with slots? To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <8f38ad26-8aaa-18d4-e266-62adbd4913cc@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <6d36e156-b6f9-b5c9-6b7f-55bdf6afaf00@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:32:46 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8f38ad26-8aaa-18d4-e266-62adbd4913cc@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f449418-8a8e-42ef-b7b1-1aaef7a4b21e X-Archives-Hash: 41b720abe2f84900c08c7dc193000acf On 01/27/2018 11:09 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hi! > > > I noticed that we have 7 packages on Fedora wallpapers with names that > only explain themselves to Fedora insiders: > > ... > > I was thinking that we could merge these packages into a new package > "x11-themes/fedora-backgrounds" or so with slots 11 to 16 so that people > can still install them in parallel, get slot updates automatically, > adding more recent ones does not add more packages, and the package name > explains itself. If you do merge them, then it might be better to use flags for the different sub-packages rather than slots. There's no place to describe what a slot is for, but having a local USE=solar with a corresponding description in metadata.xml is (relatively) discoverable.