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From: James Northrup <glamdring-inc@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:15:01
Message-Id: 42265701.70902@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Metapackages by Alec Warner
1 Alec Warner wrote:
2
3 > Stephen Bennett wrote:
4 >
5 >> Anyway, with portage development as it is now, this got brought up
6 >> again, and the current state of the GLEP can be found at
7 >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spb/metapkg-glep.txt. Comments/suggestions/flames
8 >> welcome.
9 >
10 > As long as you keep the PROVIDES line in the ebuild. Assuming repoman
11 > does full tree check when commiting it can make sure that all
12 > packages that PROVIDE virtual also exist in the metapackage. That
13 > would be my only concern, people forgetting to add lines to the
14 > correct files :)
15 >
16 Metapackages: good.
17 120 meg rsync: bad

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