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Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> On Tue, 09 May 2006 18:27:45 -0700 |
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> Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Then again, I'm missing context because people have this weird thing |
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>> about abstractly bringing up issues without discussing the actual |
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>> problem. |
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> The context is that I added profiles/repo_name to the tree ~5 days ago, |
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> in order to properly take advantage of functionality available in a |
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> certain package available in the tree (sys-apps/paludis). It's 7 bytes |
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> and doesn't adversely affect anything, so I didn't deem it particularly |
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> worth making a fuss about. |
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Stephen, thanks for this useful clarification. As far as I know, every |
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file in profiles/ is used by Gentoo's package manager or QA tools. |
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Changing that by adding a file used by something other than |
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portage/repoman is a policy change. It also may turn out that portage |
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itself could make use of a similar file to what you're adding for |
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paludis, so discussion with at least the portage team would be merited. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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