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From: Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:06:26 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Init systems portage category
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2009/10/12 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>
> But there's one... That what the "system" set is about in first place. W=
e
> 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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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">2009/10/12 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero <span dir=3D"ltr"=
><<a href=3D"mailto:i92guboj@terra.es">i92guboj@terra.es</a>></span><=
br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(20=
4, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class=3D"h5">
</div></div>But there's one... That what the "system" set is =
about in first place. We<br>
could argue if creating a new category would be any good or not, that's=
a<br>
different issue. But there's already a list of packages that's cons=
idered<br>
critical for a Gentoo system. That's what "system" is, and yo=
u will get a<br>
big red waning when trying to uninstall one package belonging to this<br>
category.<br>
=C2=A0<br></blockquote><div>Seeing as we understand @system to be "cri=
tical for a functional Gentoo system", the phrase "critical packa=
ges" may have been poorly chosen for communicating the concept of &quo=
t;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".<br>
<br>Nevertheless, there is a class of "packages that I need to watch o=
ut 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.=C2=A0 I=
t's unfortunate that there's no good way of encoding arbitrary sema=
ntic metadata about a small set of packages such that it can be leveraged b=
y various sources to achieve this end...<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Wyatt<br></div></div>
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