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On Tuesday 01 March 2005 23:15, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> As those who hang around in the mysterious realms of Portage |
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> development may know, there's some feeling around that the current |
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> system of virtual packages has some serious limitations. The |
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> currently-proposed |
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> alternative (as discussed previously, notably in |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/18922), involves a |
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> system of metapackages. These would essentially consist of a |
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> non-installable ebuild that consists entirely of a set of dependency |
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> information. Once the dependencies for the metapackage are satisfied, |
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> it's considered to be installed, and packages depending on it can go |
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> ahead and be built. |
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I see one feature that is really made more necessary for this. You want to |
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be able to select ranges of package versions that can not directly be |
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gotten by using wildcards. That way you can do real version mapping. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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