Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: replacing packages

2007-10-25 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:34:44 -0500 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For packages that are in the system set, wouldn't adding the contents of system.{,r}depend to {,R}DEPEND cause problems in dep resolution? Would there be a way to prevent the contents of these files from being added

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: replacing packages

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:34:44 -0500 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For packages that are in the system set, wouldn't adding the contents of system.{,r}depend to {,R}DEPEND cause problems in dep resolution? Would there be a way to prevent the contents of these files

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: replacing packages

2007-10-25 Thread Alec Warner
On 10/24/07, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As package sets are mostly done now, I'm starting to think about something else. One of my pet peeves with portage is the packages file in profiles, for several reasons: 1) it has two completely independent purposes ok 2) it implements a