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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
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Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets
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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:26:02 +0100
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:42:39 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Some some sort of mapping of packages into sets space does seem
> better than changing the behavior of these packages other cases.
> However, PROPERTIES=set will still be useful for governing
> recursion, since recursion into dependencies is probably not desired
> for non-meta packages in the same sense that it might be desired for
> meta-packages.
So you're saying that if a package depends upon all of foo, and a user
wants to do a deep or empty tree reinstall, all of foo shouldn't get
upgraded or reinstalled?
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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