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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets | ||
| Date: | Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:26:15 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20080928212602.76145b4e@snowmobile | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets by Zac Medico |
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| 1 | On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:42:39 -0700 |
| 2 | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > Some some sort of mapping of packages into sets space does seem |
| 4 | > better than changing the behavior of these packages other cases. |
| 5 | > However, PROPERTIES=set will still be useful for governing |
| 6 | > recursion, since recursion into dependencies is probably not desired |
| 7 | > for non-meta packages in the same sense that it might be desired for |
| 8 | > meta-packages. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | So you're saying that if a package depends upon all of foo, and a user |
| 11 | wants to do a deep or empty tree reinstall, all of foo shouldn't get |
| 12 | upgraded or reinstalled? |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -- |
| 15 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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