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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:08:58
Message-Id: 20130814170848.2e06a07b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Patrick Lauer
1 On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:59:28 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Uhm. Look at the class line.
4 > >
5 > > https://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob;f=sets.conf;h=1f4c4263f48e5360606c1acc97fbab64b03541b7;hb=HEAD
6 >
7 > ... a static identifier.
8 >
9 > I would usually call that a constant. Now I get bored with your
10 > trolling. Goodbye.
11
12 Please explain, for the benefit of everyone who posts to this list, why
13 my claim that the line "class = portage.sets.files.StaticFileSet" in
14 sets.conf corresponds to a class in Portage is "trolling".
15
16 Your claim that this is a "constant" is contradicted not just by common
17 sense and the Portage code, but also by the Portage documentation:
18
19 http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#config-set
20
21 > The configuration of a single set can be very simple as in most cases
22 > it only requires a single option class to be complete [1]. That option
23 > defines which handler class should be used to create the set.
24
25 --
26 Ciaran McCreesh

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