Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-29 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 13:34:37 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2016 12:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > That's not a case since GLEP doesn't define how it is configured. > > And it's invalid to reference other groups in path=s of a defined > > group. > > > > I'm just playing languag

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 16:00:38 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 20/05/16 11:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > >>> > >>> ...and the user has this in their install.mask file:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 20/05/16 11:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> >>> ...and the user has this in their install.mask file: >>> >>> [bash-completion] >>> path=/some/other/path >>> desc=some other descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2016 12:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > That's not a case since GLEP doesn't define how it is configured. > And it's invalid to reference other groups in path=s of a defined > group. > I'm just playing language lawyer. The spec does say, A Package Manager implementing this specificati

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 12:15:36 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2016 11:44 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > I'd make '@' signify group names, like we do for sets. This would have > > the side limitation that it would make it impossible to filter > > filenames starting with '@' with the curr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2016 11:44 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > I'd make '@' signify group names, like we do for sets. This would have > the side limitation that it would make it impossible to filter > filenames starting with '@' with the currently supported > path-or-filename syntax. > That may be the best we

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:40:39 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > > > ...and the user has this in their install.mask file: > > > > [bash-completion] > > path=/some/other/path > > desc=some other description > > > > I don't think that's allowed; th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:30:59 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2016 11:21 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > ... > > > > Getting into implementation details, I'd probably go for: > > > > INSTALL_MASK="@bash-completion" > > > > but the exact syntax is left for various package managers. P

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2016 11:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > ...and the user has this in their install.mask file: > > [bash-completion] > path=/some/other/path > desc=some other description > I don't think that's allowed; the groups are specified by each repository's metadata/install-mask.conf, not by th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/20/2016 07:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Sometime around a year ago, I started working on extending INSTALL_MASK > to support well-defined locations. The work was never finished, and I > just found my old specification for it. I've cleaned it up a bit, > and extended it into a comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2016 11:21 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > ... > > Getting into implementation details, I'd probably go for: > > INSTALL_MASK="@bash-completion" > > but the exact syntax is left for various package managers. Paludis > and pkgcore would probably prefer a proper configuration file. > Ok,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:12:02 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2016 10:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Please review the specification provided. The basic goal is to provide > > an ability to use INSTALL_MASK alike USE flags -- with path groups that > > are well-defined and described i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2016 10:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Please review the specification provided. The basic goal is to provide > an ability to use INSTALL_MASK alike USE flags -- with path groups that > are well-defined and described in the repository. > > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLE