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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:12:58
Message-Id: 1376554351.1154.9.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Ciaran McCreesh
1 El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
2 > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400
3 > Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
4 > > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS
5 > > yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It
6 > > is one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental 2.2_alpha
7 > > branch, that should finally come to release(Thanks to portage team,
8 > > by the way :-)).
9 > >
10 > > Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation flaws?
11 > > Or maybe, architecture problems?
12 >
13 > Because the Portage format involves executing arbitrary Python code
14 > that can depend in arbitrary ways upon undocumented Portage internals
15 > that can change between versions.
16 >
17
18 Ah, looks like I was too optimistic and we are (again) with the usual
19 blocking (and blocker) issues -_- (PMS refusing to include something
20 because of "lack of documentation" :S)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>