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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:32:19 +0100
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:18 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Does this seem like a good approach? Are there any suggestions for
> improvements or alternative approaches?

Strikes me as a good way of causing extreme confusion for users...

Consider sets in package.use, for example. Any specified flags should
apply to the entire set. But what about set-property packages?

Sets and packages aren't the same thing, and shouldn't be treated as if
they are.

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