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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] adding more entries to profiles/info_pkgs
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 08:43:48
Message-Id: 20181215213953.4638007d@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] adding more entries to profiles/info_pkgs by Georgy Yakovlev
1 On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:00:55 -0800
2 Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Good candidates for adding to that file are:
5 >
6 > virtual/rust
7 > llvm ?
8 > dev-util/meson
9 > dev-util/ninja
10
11 I'm really not sure these are widespread enough to justify putting
12 those details in the ouput of every emerge --info.
13
14 Instead, it seems to make more sense to have them displayed via the
15 pkg_info() function[1], which can be provided by eclasses where need be.
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17 1: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/pkg_info/index.html