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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:03:25 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> > [...] sys-user/echo [...] |
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> [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] |
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> Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages and *DEPEND |
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> variables shouldn't be abused for things like that. This has been |
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> discussed in bug 53269 previously. |
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> IMHO the way to go is to add proper variables in the next EAPI, like |
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> the EUSERS and EGROUPS proposed (and approved) in GLEP 27. |
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Don't forget to introduce a properly convoluted way of expressing |
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conditionals on USE flags etc. ;-) |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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