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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 14:17:35
Message-Id: 20130814151723.4cdb2334@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Sergey Popov
1 On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400
2 Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
3 > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS
4 > yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It
5 > is one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental 2.2_alpha
6 > branch, that should finally come to release(Thanks to portage team,
7 > by the way :-)).
8 >
9 > Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation flaws?
10 > Or maybe, architecture problems?
11
12 Because the Portage format involves executing arbitrary Python code
13 that can depend in arbitrary ways upon undocumented Portage internals
14 that can change between versions.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>