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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:33
Message-Id: 48B4C714.2020209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) by Michal Kurgan
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4 Michal Kurgan wrote:
5 > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:12 -0700
6 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> The PROPERTIES approach still seems a lot simpler and practical to
9 >> me. It seems to me that the approach involving categories introduces
10 >> needless complexity without bringing any really useful benefits.
11 >
12 > Could you elaborate on this categories complexity? I think that the idea is to
13 > just use already available categories, not implementing additional PROPERTY
14 > for this functionality.
15 >
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17 Forcing a relationship with the category name seems more complex and
18 less flexible than simply having the ability to define
19 PROPERTIES=virtual in any given ebuild.
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21 Thanks,
22 Zac
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