From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KkHKN-0001Jt-11 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48B01E0712; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBA4E06D0 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E588E644B6 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.082 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.082 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.028, BAYES_05=-1.11, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XlAV5YCBCQfp for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8A064766 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KkHK5-0003QT-Hr for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:53 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:53 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48DECDFE.7010606@gentoo.org> <20080928213219.66a30341@snowmobile> <48DFEEB8.5040608@gentoo.org> <20080928220151.33656aca@snowmobile> <48E0011E.7040808@gentoo.org> <20080928232853.6540b31d@snowmobile> <48E00B9B.3060600@gentoo.org> <48E0784A.2040505@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 03b78d9d-e70d-43f7-8eec-3675a35ba4a6 X-Archives-Hash: 4eed74ca1d6d45bc663944b6b312692e Zac Medico posted 48E0784A.2040505@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:40:10 -0700: > I'm not suggesting that the ebuild and the package set necessarily need > to have the same name. What I'm suggesting is that we use a > configuration file, distributed with the ebuild repository, to map set > names to ebuilds. This mapping would make the set name independent from > the ebuild name. That should work... and it could be as simple as the ebuild name, plus=20 -set, so for example kde-meta and @kde-meta-set. If users mess /that/=20 up... is there any hope for them? --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman