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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: pacho@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:10:05
Message-Id: 20130815110950.3d9fdfa8@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Pacho Ramos
1 On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:10:02 +0200
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió:
5 > [...]
6 > > Well, it should reflect reality.
7 > >
8 > > PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflect the state of
9 > > portage before PMS was written, and we've had to patch it up a few
10 > > times to make it coherent, plus it is still lacking half the things
11 > > that would make it useful as a standard.
12 > >
13 > > Your academic interpretation of standard as a platonic ideal
14 > > disconnected from reality serves no purpose.
15 > >
16 >
17 > On this topic I agree with Patrick: I don't fully understand why
18 > things (like in_iuse from eutils.eclass) are missing from PMS.
19
20 Why do things that can be in an eclass need to be in the PMS?
21
22 Or more specifically, why would you like to see in_iuse in the PMS?
23
24 --
25 With kind regards,
26
27 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
28 Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>