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On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:54:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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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 |
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> > file 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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Well, portage IS smart enough to not let you remove the toolchain or the C |
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library. |
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All of which is moot of course if the bloody compiler can't be launched |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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