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> > > Well, I don't consider reducing complexity "frivolous" ;-o |
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> > Which reduction for which complexity? Do you want to bring |
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> > systems to a grinding halt, just because you can't understand the |
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> > "complexity" of useflags. |
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> I just want to keep things simple. We're talking about introducing |
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> new (additional) logic. |
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Is a need to have dozens of lines in your /etc/portage/package.use a |
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simple approach? Maybe it is, if for you, simplicity means only "less |
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number of lines of code in the core of the application". But wasn't you |
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the one who told me that quantity isn't the same like complexity? Well |
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you could say that only source code and scripts contain logic and |
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therefore numbers of lines in the config files doesn't means complexity, |
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but what do I do by the config files of portage actually? I use them for |
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example to instruct portage to enable useflag A but not for ebuild and |
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useflag B but just for ebuild b. Do you claim that this is no logic? |
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> Rember: we started with the thesis, "grandma wants graphical |
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> frontends whereever possible". This is in fact not an technical |
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> issue, instead a matter of personal taste, or lets say, an individual |
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> system configuration. Grandma wants to click, okay, so she should |
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> use graphical applications. She's not interested what sits behind, |
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> she just wants to have a buch of applications. And she also doesn't |
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> wann have anything to do with emerge and useflags. She just wants |
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> to have a choice between a bunch of end-user applications. |
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> That's the job of an Grandma-(sub-)distro. |
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That was never the point where "we" started. That was just the point, |
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you used to confuse this discussion. The grandma scenario should just be |
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a funny example for a requirement of such a advanced portage syntax I |
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could really need on my own systems and I'm not female, but male and not |
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80 but 18 years old. ;) |
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I know that my proposed syntax isn't a perfect solution. But I think the |
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current state of portage isn't a perfect solution, too. And I hoped when |
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I started this thread, that we will find together a good solution. |
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Best Regards |
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Sebastian Noack |
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