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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:46:35
Message-Id: 48C15453.5030509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2 by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > First, regarding the news item, I'd suggest that instead of telling
3 > users to modify world_sets manually to use `emerge --noreplace @system`.
4
5 ++
6
7 > Second for the suggestions on how to handle the transition:
8 > - treating 'world' and '@world' differently is a no go from my POV. One
9 > of the main reasons to implement them as sets was to remove special
10 > case code in emerge, so I'm quite opposed to adding new special cases
11 > instead. And I'm quite sure that such a separation would cause
12 > confusion, and some isues regarding (end-user) documentation.
13
14 +++
15
16 -Joe