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>>>>> On Fri, 20 May 2016, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Sometime around a year ago, I started working on extending |
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> INSTALL_MASK to support well-defined locations. The work was never |
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> finished, and I just found my old specification for it. I've cleaned |
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> it up a bit, and extended it into a complete GLEP covering |
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> INSTALL_MASK [1]. |
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> Please review the specification provided. The basic goal is to |
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> provide an ability to use INSTALL_MASK alike USE flags -- with path |
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> groups that are well-defined and described in the repository. |
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Sorry, I am late in the game. (Or maybe not, since the GLEP doesn't |
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yet have a number.) |
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The GLEP says that path groups always apply globally. So the |
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install-mask.conf file is not "alike layout.conf" (as the GLEP claims) |
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because its scope is not restricted to the repository where it is |
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stored. And in turn this can lead to name collisions ("Duplicate |
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groups [...] are considered an error"). |
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Therefore I think that repository metadata is the wrong place for |
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storing the install-mask.conf file. It is configuration, specific to |
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Portage (but not to the repository), so /usr/share/portage/config/ |
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would be a better location to store it. |
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Ulrich |
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> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:INSTALL_MASK |
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