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2009/10/12 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> |
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> But there's one... That what the "system" set is about in first place. We |
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> could argue if creating a new category would be any good or not, that's a |
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> different issue. But there's already a list of packages that's considered |
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> critical for a Gentoo system. That's what "system" is, and you will get a |
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> big red waning when trying to uninstall one package belonging to this |
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> category. |
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Seeing as we understand @system to be "critical for a functional Gentoo |
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system", the phrase "critical packages" may have been poorly chosen for |
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communicating the concept of "things that, should I be cavalier in playing |
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with them, may leave me with a system that is incapable of playing again |
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without intervention from one of those lovely LiveCD things". |
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Nevertheless, there is a class of "packages that I need to watch out for, |
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because they'll make my life miserable in ways X can only dream about and |
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THEN stab me in the kidneys with a rusty javelin if I'm not careful" under |
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discussion that could probably use some action. It's unfortunate that |
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there's no good way of encoding arbitrary semantic metadata about a small |
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set of packages such that it can be leveraged by various sources to achieve |
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this end... |
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Regards, |
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Wyatt |