From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, glep@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [DRAFT] GLEP 84: Standard format for package.mask files
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:44:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u5y3kyhuq@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d274c068048a58a24b948e0c10ecfa43b54eab6d.camel@gentoo.org> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny=22's?= message of "Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:12:32 +0200")
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>>>>> On Thu, 05 Oct 2023, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Entries Grouping
>> ----------------
>>
>> Each mask entry consists of 2 parts: `comments block`_ and `packages list`_,
>> which aren't separated by a blank line between the 2 parts. Between entries, a
>> mandatory blank line must appear.
>>
>> New entries added to the file must be inserted at the beginning, after the file
>> header.
>>
>> Packages List
>> -------------
>>
>> Must conform to PMS sections 4.4 [#PMS-4.4]_ and 5.2.8 [#PMS-5.2.8]_. This GLEP
>> further limits the syntax to one item per line, without any leading or
>> proceeding whitespaces, no comments inside the packages list, and no blank
>> lines between items in the list.
> That kinda sucks. For very long masks, it is useful to be able to split
> the entry into subgroups. I suppose it's technically still doable via
> splitting the entry but that sounds a bit backwards.
I think it could say that blank lines between items are allowed, without
any other change to the spec. The fact that each entry must start with a
comments block will still guarantee that assigning of packages to an
entry will be well-defined.
Ulrich
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-05 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-04 18:43 [gentoo-dev] [DRAFT] GLEP 84: Standard format for package.mask files Arthur Zamarin
2023-10-05 3:12 ` Michał Górny
2023-10-05 18:49 ` Arthur Zamarin
2023-10-05 19:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-10-05 19:31 ` Arthur Zamarin
2023-10-05 19:44 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2023-10-05 18:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2023-10-05 19:19 ` Arthur Zamarin
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