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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Idea: Add tags support to Portage
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:44:05
Message-Id: 49C9709C.8030106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-soc] Idea: Add tags support to Portage by alexsmk
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4 Hi,
5
6 I've received number of emails from people who are interested in
7 working on "tags support" as an soc project (I've added 8 people as
8 bcc recipients of this email). However, I think that this project is
9 inappropriate for soc because it is too trivial. Once we've decided
10 on the method that tags will be expressed (metadata.xml or a new
11 variable in ebuilds), adding support for it to just about any tool
12 should only amount to approximately 1 or 2 hours of work (pretty
13 trivial).
14
15 Anyway, the first step to adding tag support is to propose a
16 specification to the gentoo-dev mailing list. There has already been
17 some recent discussion on this topic [1]. Typically, extensions like
18 this are proposed as a GLEP before they are implemented. For
19 example, a recent extension that is similar in scope to tags was
20 glep 56 [3].
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22 [1]
23 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_49d13fd1a36cdf2464df7e99ab05b44c.xml
24 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0001.html
25 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html
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27 Thanks,
28 Zac
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