-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rémi Cardona wrote: > Zac Medico a écrit : >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to >> indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected on >> the command line. This is behavior is somewhat difficult to describe >> in words but the following example should be sufficient to convey >> the general idea. > > As one of the maintainers of the gnome-base/gnome meta, I fail to see > the usefulness of such a change. We have yet to ask users to rebuild > "gnome" completely. Do you have any specific use cases (maybe coming > from the KDE herd, since you used the kde meta as an example) ? > > The one thing that bothers me about this is consistency: if, say, xfce > (let's change ;) ) decides to use PROPERTIES=set, users will have a > different experience with their ebuild than with the other metas we > currently ship. > > All in all, I'm not really against such a change, however I really fail > to see the win for everyone, end-users included.
Over the course of the discussion I've revised the idea so that it essentially represents a way to define a package set, without any changes to existing behavior. What will change is that we will have a new way to define package sets, based on ebuilds. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjgdqIACgkQ/ejvha5XGaP2qwCg8RgPOtwHrF/IkPm61irpeYQs 918AoMGto/juGcI9og4Ct/dgkymIHz7V =3uaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
