On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:12:31 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400
> > Sergey Popov <pinkb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS
> > > yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'.
> > > It is one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental
> > > 2.2_alpha branch, that should finally come to release(Thanks to
> > > portage team, by the way :-)).
> > > 
> > > Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation
> > > flaws? Or maybe, architecture problems?
> > 
> > Because the Portage format involves executing arbitrary Python code
> > that can depend in arbitrary ways upon undocumented Portage
> > internals that can change between versions.
> > 
> 
> Ah, looks like I was too optimistic and we are (again) with the usual
> blocking (and blocker) issues -_- (PMS refusing to include something
> because of "lack of documentation" :S)
That's a very selective misinterpretation of the facts. If you want to
reduce it to a few simple words, try "terrible format".

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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