Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Support @profile package set for bug #532224

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2014-12-10, o godz. 18:08:00
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> Add support for a new @profile set which allows the profile to pull
> in additional packages that do not belong to the @system set.
> 
> The motivation to have @profile separate from @system is that
> @system packages may have incomplete dependency specifications
> (due to long-standing Gentoo policy), and incomplete dependency
> specifications have deleterious effects on the ability of emerge
> --jobs to parallelize builds. So, unlike @system, packages added to
> @profile do not hurt emerge --jobs parallelization.
> 
> Packages are added to the @profile set in the same way that they are
> added to the @system set, except that atoms in the @profile set are
> not preceded with a '*' character. Also, the @profile package set
> is only supported when 'profile-set' is listed in the layout.conf
> profile-formats field of the containing repository.

PMS says PMs ought to ignore atoms without '*'. This means we can't use
it without profile EAPI change, or other PMs will start losing packages.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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