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On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> How about a portage feature request? |
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> The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file |
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> which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system. |
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> Without the setting, python does not get included in @system. |
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Since the system package set is package manageragnostic, perhaps that's |
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the wrong place to deal with dependencies for portage or whatever? |
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The package manager itself should know enough to keep itself functional. |
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It just seems odd that portage lets you use portage commands to break |
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portage. If I wrote a package manager in C# (as a ridiculous example) I |
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would probably make it smart enough not to let you remove mono. |
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--K |
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