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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:38 +0100 Marien Zwart <marienz@g.o> |
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| I am a bit unsure about what the goal for PMS is here. It does not |
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| seem to be to document what a certain (the current?) version of |
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| portage does, as the defacto standard. Instead you want to document |
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| what portages *intention* is, or something like that. |
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The aim is to document things that Portage does intentionally, along |
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with things that Portage does unintentionally if that behaviour is |
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required by a lot of the tree, whilst excluding things that are |
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clearly Portage bugs. |
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Which is, of course, not entirely quantifiable, rather vague and a pain |
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in the ass to get right, which is another reason that it helps that |
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everyone currently writing PMS is more or less on the same page in |
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terms of what gets documented. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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