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23.11.2022 16:45, Ulrich Mueller пишет: |
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>>>>>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2022, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> The main reason the new category is distasteful to me is because it's |
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>> *so close* to being a virtual. For one, having these packages be |
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>> virtuals would make them somewhat self-explanatory to end users. If |
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>> we're collectively willing to overlook the "no files" bit, are there |
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>> any other reasons to avoid using virtual/ ? |
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> They have a nonempty installation image and at least one phase function, |
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> therefore they're not virtuals. IIRC there are also some optimisations |
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> for the virtual category in Portage as well as in our QA tools which |
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> rely on this. |
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> However, I tend to agree that the category should be named app-meta |
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> rather than sys-meta, because chances are that non-system packages will |
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> also make use of it. |
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> Ulrich |
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Since these packages manage symlinks, make it app-symlink? |
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Best regards, |
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Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov |