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On Friday 23 September 2005 15:36, Duncan wrote: |
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> OTOH, it's obviously yet /another/ thing for portage devs to work on, and |
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> portage is /supposed/ to be in feature request freeze ATM... I like the |
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> idea, but whether the benefits of putting it on the current feature list |
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> outweigh the costs of putting it off, is something I'm not going to even |
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> pretend I want to evaluate. =8^| If you portage devs believe it's easy |
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> to "make it so", perhaps further discussion is warranted. If not, I'm |
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> not in favor of putting off the next portage yet /again/ to make it |
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> happen, tho it'd certainly be nice to have, so I'd say it's not even |
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> worth further discussion ATM. JMHO... |
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There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag |
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"categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in |
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a USE flag, hence the support is there already. The work would come in |
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adjusting every ebuild to use the different name as well as killing |
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backward compatibility with already installed packages and binary packages. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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