Zac Medico a écrit :
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Hi everyone,
Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to
indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected on
the command line. This is behavior is somewhat difficult to describe
in words but the following example should be sufficient to convey
the general idea.
As one of the maintainers of the gnome-base/gnome meta, I fail to see
the usefulness of such a change. We have yet to ask users to rebuild
"gnome" completely. Do you have any specific use cases (maybe coming
from the KDE herd, since you used the kde meta as an example) ?
The one thing that bothers me about this is consistency: if, say, xfce
(let's change ;) ) decides to use PROPERTIES=set, users will have a
different experience with their ebuild than with the other metas we
currently ship.
All in all, I'm not really against such a change, however I really fail
to see the win for everyone, end-users included.
Cheers :)
Rémi
