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On 01/29/2017 05:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> [...] sys-user/echo [...] |
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> [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] |
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> Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages and *DEPEND |
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> variables shouldn't be abused for things like that. This has been |
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> discussed in bug 53269 previously. |
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Well they're not packages now because they're not packages now. If we |
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make them packages, they'll be packages. We treat them a lot like |
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packages, and by making them packages, a lot of things get simpler. |
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> IMHO the way to go is to add proper variables in the next EAPI, like |
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> the EUSERS and EGROUPS proposed (and approved) in GLEP 27. |
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But then we need to add features to make EUSERS and EGROUPS work exactly |
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like DEPEND and RDEPEND, which seems counter-productive. What if I need |
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a user conditionally on some USE flag? What if I need to share a user |
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with another package? How do users get removed? |
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I will try to coalesce all of this into a wiki page at some point. |
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