On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:18:32 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 6:08:41 PM EDT Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:48:53 -0400 > > > > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:18:51 AM EDT Kent Fredric wrote: > > > > There's a lot of "but what if you care!??!" things, perhaps this may be > > > > an important one to you, but some people care a lot about LICENSE and > > > > some people just don't. > > > > > > Yes, and some care about what repo it comes from. Which is why portage now > > > shows you what repo it comes from as part of merge output. This is really > > > no different. > > > > No. > > > > Portage shows the repo it comes from because it is necessary for > > the package specification to be unique, i.e. two repositories can > > provide the same version of the same package. > > It does not have to show it for that function. Showing the repo is a visual > thing for the user during merge output. Portage does not have to have ANY > output to do its job. Visual output is a user thing. Excuse me but what is your goal here? I stated the rationale for that particular change. Your disagreement won't change why it was done. I know that some Gentoo developers find that very hard to comprehend but in most of the cases, the people directly involved in it happen to know the rationale. Rationale is *why X did Y*, not *why I think that X did Y, as long as it contradicts what X says*. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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