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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:44:31
Message-Id: 20130814164356.4b883baa@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree by Patrick Lauer
1 On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400
5 > > Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS
7 > >> yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'.
8 > >> It is one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental
9 > >> 2.2_alpha branch, that should finally come to release(Thanks to
10 > >> portage team, by the way :-)).
11 > >>
12 > >> Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation
13 > >> flaws? Or maybe, architecture problems?
14 > >
15 > > Because the Portage format involves executing arbitrary Python code
16 > > that can depend in arbitrary ways upon undocumented Portage
17 > > internals that can change between versions.
18 > >
19 > You keep repeating that.
20 >
21 > That doesn't make it more true.
22
23 It's not a question of "more true", it simply is true. Look at the class
24 line.
25
26 --
27 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>