Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On 19/07/2023 18.10, Matt Turner wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
>> ---
>> Feel free to bikeshed the location, structure, file-format, etc.
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/evolution             | 3 +++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/glib                  | 3 +++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gnome-shell           | 4 ++++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gobject-introspection | 2 ++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/sysprof               | 3 +++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vala                  | 2 ++
>>   metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte                   | 3 +++
>>   7 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/evolution
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/glib
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gnome-shell
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gobject-introspection
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/sysprof
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vala
>>   create mode 100644 metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/evolution
>> b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/evolution
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..21bbcf804e94
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/evolution
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +gnome-extra/evolution-data-server
>> +gnome-extra/evolution-ews
>> +mail-client/evolution
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/glib b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/glib
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..51a5659dd725
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/glib
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +dev-libs/glib
>> +dev-util/gdbus-codegen
>> +dev-util/glib-utils
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gnome-shell b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gnome-shell
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..ddf76f8f88f4
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gnome-shell
>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
>> +gnome-base/gnome-shell
>> +gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions
>> +gnome-extra/gnome-shell-frippery
>> +x11-wm/mutter
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gobject-introspection b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gobject-introspection
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..8baf4ae59124
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/gobject-introspection
>> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
>> +dev-libs/gobject-introspection
>> +dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/sysprof b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/sysprof
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..66a338916039
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/sysprof
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +dev-util/sysprof
>> +dev-util/sysprof-capture
>> +dev-util/sysprof-common
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vala b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vala
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..2e4d5a33748d
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vala
>> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
>> +dev-lang/vala
>> +dev-libs/vala-common
>> diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..ce25ab265262
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +gui-libs/vte
>> +gui-libs/vte-common
>> +x11-libs/vte
>
>
> Couldn't stabilization groups be package sets? For example, instead of
>
> metadata/stabilization-groups/gnome/vte
>
> you have
>
> sets/stable-group-gnome-vte
>
> with the exact same content (may requires that :;gentoo declares a
> sets.conf).

This then ends up polluting users' list of sets, e.g. when they run
`emerge --list-sets`, or `emerge @<TAB>`, and so on.

It had occurred to me but I decided not to suggest it for this
reason. Also, these groups aren't necessarily going to be things
users should emerge directly at all (e.g. related libraries).