>>>>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 07:26:21 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Therefore I think that repository metadata is the wrong place for >> storing the install-mask.conf file. It is configuration, specific to >> Portage (but not to the repository), so /usr/share/portage/config/ >> would be a better location to store it. > ...which would mean we have to re-release Portage every time it > changes, which in turn means we can't do anything without having > shout at users to upgrade Portage, and upgrade, and upgrade... > systemd uses new path? Upgrade Portage. We support a new > localization? Upgrade Portage. We failed horribly and your system > no longer boots? Upgrade Portage. Even now not all files in /usr/share/portage/config/ are owned by sys-apps/portage. So if you expect path groups to change such frequently, create a subdirectory install-mask/ (similar to sets/) there and have packages install their configuration files in it. Alternatively, one could think about placing the path groups file in profiles/ which would still be better than repository metadata which looks totally wrong to me. Another question, how are path groups supposed to work in Prefix? The GLEP doesn't address this. Ulrich
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