Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2006 18:27:45 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then again, I'm missing context because people have this weird thing >> about abstractly bringing up issues without discussing the actual >> problem. > > The context is that I added profiles/repo_name to the tree ~5 days ago, > in order to properly take advantage of functionality available in a > certain package available in the tree (sys-apps/paludis). It's 7 bytes > and doesn't adversely affect anything, so I didn't deem it particularly > worth making a fuss about.
Stephen, thanks for this useful clarification. As far as I know, every file in profiles/ is used by Gentoo's package manager or QA tools. Changing that by adding a file used by something other than portage/repoman is a policy change. It also may turn out that portage itself could make use of a similar file to what you're adding for paludis, so discussion with at least the portage team would be merited. Thanks, Donnie
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