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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:10:22
Message-Id: 1376554202.1154.7.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Patrick Lauer
1 El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió:
2 [...]
3 > Well, it should reflect reality.
4 >
5 > PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflect the state of portage
6 > before PMS was written, and we've had to patch it up a few times to make
7 > it coherent, plus it is still lacking half the things that would make it
8 > useful as a standard.
9 >
10 > Your academic interpretation of standard as a platonic ideal
11 > disconnected from reality serves no purpose.
12 >
13
14 On this topic I agree with Patrick: I don't fully understand why things
15 (like in_iuse from eutils.eclass) are missing from PMS. If that applies
16 to more features that were forgotten when writing PMS, we have a
17 problem :(

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>