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

2007-10-26 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:14:40 -0700 "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another issue that isn't directly related, but covered by the > > proposed solution below, is the so called "implicit system > > dependency" in ebuilds, which doesn't really exist. It only an > > assumption by people t

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 impleme

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 fil

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 a

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

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Marius Mauch 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 2) it implements a redundant visibility filter as package.m

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

2007-10-24 Thread Marius Mauch
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 2) it implements a redundant visibility filter as package.mask is also available