On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:24 PM, A. Wilcox <awil...@adelielinux.org> wrote: > > The original intention wasn't to guess, but I see how PMS is more for > things that are determined at run-time by the package manager rather > than static variables. >
To be clear, PMS is more about package manager behavior, and what you're defining is more of a repository convention. You don't need any special behavior in the package manager to handle these cases, it is more a matter of repository QA. It isn't just stuff that is determined at run-time, but anything that directly impacts the package manager (such as *DEPEND and so on, which isn't usually set at runtime but which obviously impacts what gets installed). A GLEP would be a great way to formalize this IMO, though I'm not certain it is essential. Here is a separate thought. Would it make sense in any way to try to have a more established way to communicate with our downstream distros about stuff like this, like a gentoo-derivatives mailing list or such? I wouldn't restrict access or anything like that, but participants would be expected to stay on-topic (it isn't another gentoo-dev or gentoo-user/project). Changes could still make their way onto the main lists. I was just thinking that we don't really have any official way to notify downstream distros of changes like these. -- Rich
