On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 14:58 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 23/11/2022 08.38, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > TL;DR: I'd like to add sys-meta/{cpio,sh,tar} to install and control
> > (via USE flags) /bin/{cpio,sh,tar} symlinks.
>
> I am very much in favour to have a package that controls those symlinks.
> What is not immediately clear to me is what would that mean for eselect
> in long run. Is it so that you'd like to keep eselect around and alive
> parallel to those sys-meta category packages, or would there be push to
> eventually get rid of most of eselect and where possible switch to sys-meta?
No, I don't think that's going to happen. Sure, switching that will
make sense for some packages; for others, eselect will probably be
better.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
