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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:35 +0000 (UTC)
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> posted 48E0784A.2040505@g.o,
excerpted below, on  Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:40:10 -0700:

> I'm not suggesting that the ebuild and the package set necessarily need
> to have the same name. What I'm suggesting is that we use a
> configuration file, distributed with the ebuild repository, to map set
> names to ebuilds. This mapping would make the set name independent from
> the ebuild name.

That should work... and it could be as simple as the ebuild name, plus 
-set, so for example kde-meta and @kde-meta-set.  If users mess /that/ 
up... is there any hope for them?

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman



References:
[RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Zac Medico
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Zac Medico
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Zac Medico
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Zac Medico
Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
-- Duncan
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