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From: Michal Kurgan <moloh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:23:48
Message-Id: 20080826202309.2e328a27@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) by Zac Medico
1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:12 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The PROPERTIES approach still seems a lot simpler and practical to
5 > me. It seems to me that the approach involving categories introduces
6 > needless complexity without bringing any really useful benefits.
7
8 Could you elaborate on this categories complexity? I think that the idea is to
9 just use already available categories, not implementing additional PROPERTY
10 for this functionality.
11
12 --
13 Michal Kurgan
14 http://dev.gentoo.org/~moloh

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