Re: [gentoo-dev] Init systems portage category

[Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@gmail.com>]

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2009/10/12 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>

>  But there's one... That what the "system" set is about in first place. We
> could argue if creating a new category would be any good or not, that's a
> different issue. But there's already a list of packages that's considered
> critical for a Gentoo system. That's what "system" is, and you will get a
> big red waning when trying to uninstall one package belonging to this
> category.
>
>
Seeing as we understand @system to be "critical for a functional Gentoo
system", the phrase "critical packages" may have been poorly chosen for
communicating the concept of "things that, should I be cavalier in playing
with them, may leave me with a system that is incapable of playing again
without intervention from one of those lovely LiveCD things".

Nevertheless, there is a class of "packages that I need to watch out for,
because they'll make my life miserable in ways X can only dream about and
THEN stab me in the kidneys with a rusty javelin if I'm not careful" under
discussion that could probably use some action.  It's unfortunate that
there's no good way of encoding arbitrary semantic metadata about a small
set of packages such that it can be leveraged by various sources to achieve
this end...

Regards,
Wyatt

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