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On 16 June 2013 23:02, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:31:10 -0400 |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > Either by denoting USE flags in USE as special _or_ introducing a |
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>> > separate OUSE variable. |
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>> > |
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>> > They don't have to be "openrc", "cron", "systemd" but could be like |
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>> > "init-scripts", "cron-files", "systemd-units"; to not collide with |
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>> > any existing USE flags, if any. |
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>> > |
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>> > Do they start to depend on each other? Why? |
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>> Bottom line is that in order to accomplish any of this we need to |
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>> expand PMS to specify a syntax, implement this stuff in portage, and |
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>> then start modifying all our ebuilds so that heaven-forbid you don't |
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>> get an openrc script installed if you don't set USE=openrc. |
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>> I don't think any of this is worth it for a one block text file. |
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I believe this proposal aims to workaround the "we can't work |
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together" problem than actually providing |
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real benefit to the way we maintain packages. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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