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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:09:12
Message-Id: 520B8114.5060004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by "Michał Górny"
1 14.08.2013 17:02, Michał Górny пишет:
2 > Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17
3 > Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >
5 >> 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет:
6 >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
7 >>> Right now, however,
8 >>> it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're being used,
9 >>> trade ideas, etc.
10 >>
11 >> Well, we can use sets as replacement for metapackages(for example,
12 >> qt-meta, leechcraft-meta).
13 >>
14 >> Well, as for leechcraft-meta, we can not simply replace metapackage with
15 >> set, cause we have unstable USE-flag there.
16 >
17 > No, we can't. Sets are portage-specific, the tree needs to follow PMS.
18 >
19
20 I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS
21 yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It is
22 one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental 2.2_alpha branch,
23 that should finally come to release(Thanks to portage team, by the way :-)).
24
25 Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation flaws? Or
26 maybe, architecture problems?
27
28 --
29 Best regards, Sergey Popov
30 Gentoo developer
31 Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
32 Gentoo Qt project lead
33 Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead

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