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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 15:44:43
Message-Id: 20160520174428.18c0ed8d@pomiocik
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:30:59 -0400
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 05/20/2016 11:21 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > > ...
7 > >
8 > > Getting into implementation details, I'd probably go for:
9 > >
10 > > INSTALL_MASK="@bash-completion"
11 > >
12 > > but the exact syntax is left for various package managers. Paludis
13 > > and pkgcore would probably prefer a proper configuration file.
14 > >
15 >
16 > Ok, thanks.
17 >
18 > Isn't "@bash-completion" a well-defined path[0]? Since the reference
19 > implementation is TODO, I'm wary of specifying something that may be
20 > unworkable.
21 >
22 >
23 > [0] I think -- it would be helpful to define "well-defined path"
24 > and "direct path".
25
26 I'd make '@' signify group names, like we do for sets. This would have
27 the side limitation that it would make it impossible to filter
28 filenames starting with '@' with the currently supported
29 path-or-filename syntax.
30
31 --
32 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New GLEP: file installation masks Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>