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On 24 May 2009, at 21:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system |
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>>> has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was |
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>>> never a |
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>>> need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of |
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>>> portage. |
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>> That may well be the way it IS, but it certainly is not the way it |
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>> SHOULD BE. The only sane way to do this is: |
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>> if (pkgmgr=portage) |
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>> python in @system |
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>> else |
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>> python !in system |
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>> end |
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> That's not particularly sane, because it addresses only one special |
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> case, |
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> others may arise. IMO the sane approach, as I said some posts |
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> ago, is for buildsyspkg to build packages for everything in @system |
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> and |
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> their dependencies. If you can't do "emerge -eK @system", buildsyspkg |
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> has failed to do anything useful. |
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+1 |
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You have saved me replying to Alan's post. |
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One could write a package manager in Perl. As it stands Portage would |
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warn you against uninstalling "Perltage", but not Perl itself, a hard |
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dependency of that package manager. Clearly this should be fixed. |
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Stroller. |
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