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On 10/17/2016 01:21 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:20:42 -0400 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>> Part of the idea everyone is missing is time... It takes time to go look at |
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>> information a package metadata.xml If the package is coming in as a |
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>> dependency. Instead of just being able to visually look at the package name |
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>> and know. |
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>> |
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>> This is a binary package from upstream |
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>> This is a binary package from Gentoo |
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> |
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> There's quite a lot of metadata that *might* be important ( but isn't ) and is only |
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> available as metadata, not visible in the package name itself. |
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> Like, LICENSE, and "where its fetched from" |
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> dev-lang/perl-artistic-gpl2+-cpan-5.24.1 |
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> This is just getting silly. |
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> Exposing metadata in the package atom should be out of *necessity*, |
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> not some misguided sense of visibility. |
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> For every other kind of metadata, those who care about it should invest |
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> effort into exposing it. |
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> That's why my example elsewhere abuses the LICENSE field to demonstrate |
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> how end users can make a choice/see the reality using out-of-name |
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> metadata. |
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> But there is quite frankly no *need* for -gbin and -bin |
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> The only real /technical/ reason we have both -bin and -gbin is it |
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> avoids the binary version competing for a name with the source-built |
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> version. |
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> That is, if there is a "-bin" package, its viable some day there may be |
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> a non "-bin" package, and that they may both be available side-by-side |
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> and you may wish to choose between them. |
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> But "-gbin" and "-bin" coexisting side-by side is a usecase I can't see |
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> being useful to anybody. |
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+1 |
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It sounds like a good intention, but users who don't check that sort of |
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thing likely don't care or won't know which decision is "right" for |
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them. Metadata makes the most sense, as that's the entire point of |
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_meta_data. app-portage/gentoolkit is imo almost required for |
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administering a Gentoo machine. equery and eix are amazingly useful as a |
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user. I can't fathom a reason not to use them. |
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