On Saturday 06 September 2014 16:22:46 hasufell wrote: > Anthony G. Basile: > > On 09/06/14 12:12, hasufell wrote: > >> Anthony G. Basile: > >>>> And when you do ask, is a package that's "provided" installed, and if > >>>> so, what's its metadata? > >>> > >>> When the package is installed, that data should have been cached. > >> > >> Afaik there is nothing "cached" if you put stuff in package.provided. > >> It's a terrible hack, unless I missed something. > > > > I wasn't sure what Ciaran was talking about there. If its hacky, then > > we certainly don't want to standardize it in the GLEP. > > Well, you have to to define what tools can expect from > provided/installed packages. > > That means either say "you cannot expect anything, because there might > or might not be metadata" or say "you can expect metadata for any > provided/installed package" in which case package.provided feature has > to be removed from portage.
"Provided" means "not managed by the package manager" and thus returning "empty metadata" for queries is perfectly fine. I don't see why this feature would need to be removed ...
