On 09/07/14 22:36, Patrick Lauer wrote:
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 ...
I will explicitly mention "package.provided" in the GLEP as not
returning anything for metadata.
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