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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:03:02 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday, October 17, 2016 7:34:57 PM EDT you wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:18:32 -0400 |
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> > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Monday, October 17, 2016 6:08:41 PM EDT Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:48:53 -0400 |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Portage shows the repo it comes from because it is necessary for |
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> > > > the package specification to be unique, i.e. two repositories can |
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> > > > provide the same version of the same package. |
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> > > It does not have to show it for that function. Showing the repo is a |
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> > > visual |
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> > > thing for the user during merge output. Portage does not have to have ANY |
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> > > output to do its job. Visual output is a user thing. |
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> > Excuse me but what is your goal here? I stated the rationale for that |
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> > particular change. Your disagreement won't change why it was done. |
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> What is your goal? Your assumption is wrong, this change is clearly visual |
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> only... |
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> Bug #510538: Include "::repository" in more messages. |
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> https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/ |
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> 3f110090e50207d4ae3f6031ce6b1beafc80de46 |
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> |
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> Not technical purely visual... |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510538 |
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We could start with the fact that we're talking of two different |
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changes. I was talking of the *original* change that started |
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introducing repository name in various parts of output. You're talking |
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about a followup commit. |
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Now, let me explain this to you. The goal for ::repository output is to |
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provide minimal package identifiers that can be used to 100% uniquely |
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identify packages. As in, you see 'emerge -pv' output, you copy-paste |
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the package from it and you get a guarantee that emerge will select |
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the same package from the same repository. |
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Yes, it's purely visual. However, this visual change was motivated by |
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an intent to provide functionally useful output. |
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As a side note, Portage for some time did limit ::repository output to |
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non-Gentoo repositories only. This was changed later in order to reduce |
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the use of 'main repository' and make Portage less tied to the old |
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Gentoo layout. |
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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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