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On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:54:44 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I'm highly doubtful that there's any real need for different kinds |
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> > of repository-provided sets. We especially don't want sets to be |
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> > code... |
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> Simple things like getting a list of packages which own a particular |
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> file (for rebuilds) or grepping a variable are useful to users. |
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That's something done by sets as provided by the package mangler, not |
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something done by repository-specified sets. |
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> For example, the x11 overlay provides a set to rebuild the xorg server |
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> modules after an update. |
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That's just a list of package specs. The user then says "only the ones |
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of these that I have installed" by the way the set is used. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |