Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-21 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 August 2013 23:03, Sergey Popov wrote: > 15.08.2013 12:12, Pacho Ramos пишет: >> El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: >> >> Ah, looks like I was too optimistic and we are (again) with the usual >> blocking (and blocker) issues -_- (PMS refusing to include something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
15.08.2013 12:12, Pacho Ramos пишет: > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > > Ah, looks like I was too optimistic and we are (again) with the usual > blocking (and blocker) issues -_- (PMS refusing to include something > because of "lack of documentation" :S) > > An

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-19 Thread Sergey Popov
14.08.2013 23:34, hasufell пишет: > PMS is a waste of time, we should drop it until people are able to > maintain it properly. They are obviously not. No, it is not. If we have no clear implementation-agnostic background about how things should work, then we will be screwed for no good reason, sor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 14 of August 2013 21:42:35 Michael Palimaka wrote: | Now that portage-2.2 is in ~arch, we should now be able to add sets to | the tree. | | How should we go about doing this? In some overlays, the repository root | has sets/{foo,bar,etc} and sets.conf which might look like this: |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:04:47 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Wouldn't be much easy to try to get sets support approved for the next > eapi? (eapi6 I think). Once we get the usual problems, we can complain > but, who knows, maybe (as it's already implemented in a PM) it doesn't > take so long to get app

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:12:31 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > > Sergey Popov wrote: > > > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS > > > yet(when we updated it for EAPI chan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-15, o godz. 10:04:47 Pacho Ramos napisał(a): > El jue, 15-08-2013 a las 07:42 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > > I'm quite surprised that you attack hasufell now for his valid opinion > > that PMS is not well maintained and does not reflect reality adequately. > > > > Wouldn't be m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-15, o godz. 11:10:31 Ulrich Mueller napisał(a): > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I don't fully understand why things (like in_iuse from > > eutils.eclass) are missing from PMS. > > How should this feature have made it into PMS by now? AFAICS, you've > first pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-15, o godz. 11:09:50 Tom Wijsman napisał(a): > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:10:02 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > > [...] > > > Well, it should reflect reality. > > > > > > PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/15/2013 03:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 15 August 2013 00:42, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > And their lack of time (to be polite)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > [...] >> Well, it should reflect reality. >> >> PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflect the state of portage >> before PMS was written, and we've had to patch it up a fe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I don't fully understand why things (like in_iuse from > eutils.eclass) are missing from PMS. How should this feature have made it into PMS by now? AFAICS, you've first proposed it in the following posting, two days after EAPI 5 was approved: http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:10:02 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > [...] > > Well, it should reflect reality. > > > > PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflect the state of > > portage before PMS was written, and we've had to patch it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 15:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS > > yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It > > is one of the long-standing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 23:53 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: [...] > Well, it should reflect reality. > > PMS is still broken as much as it does not reflect the state of portage > before PMS was written, and we've had to patch it up a few times to make > it coherent, plus it is still lacking half

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 15-08-2013 a las 07:42 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > >> > >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general > >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-15 Thread Markos Chandras
On 15 August 2013 00:42, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general progress in gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 02:54:46 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/15/2013 02:48 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > >> Multiple cases like mandating bash 3.2 that we don't even have in > >> tree anymore, > > > > There is =app-shells/bash-3.2_p51 in the Portage t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:50:16 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Because if you want to allow multiple package managers as an option, > > If - but why would we do that? To give our users choice. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/philosophy.xml http://www.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2013 02:48 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >> Multiple cases like mandating bash 3.2 that we don't even have in >> tree anymore, > > There is =app-shells/bash-3.2_p51 in the Portage tree. > Fun facts: It is in unstable branch. So while I write e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:42:21 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > >> > >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general > >>> prog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/15/2013 04:56 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 14 August 2013 21:41, hasufell wrote: >> On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general progress in gentoo. >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general progress in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/15/2013 04:21 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: >> >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general >>> progress in gentoo. >> >> Perhaps these basic notions of how Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:56:09 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:50:56 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > > On 08/14/2013 11:41 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > > >> Sergey Popov wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Markos Chandras
On 14 August 2013 21:41, hasufell wrote: > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: >> >>> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general >>> progress in gentoo. >> >> Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo devel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:41:02 +0200 hasufell wrote: > Why don't you respond to my technical points then? PMS is blocking > progress, again, because it does not reflect reality. > > I don't even see a reason why we should keep up that effort. PMS reflects the most recent Council vote on "what's al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread hasufell
On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > >> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general >> progress in gentoo. > > Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo development works You certainly are not an a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
I've always found those class = something.that.is.clearly.portage.specific lines a bit of a bummer, since they're very tied to the internal functioning of portage and not a generic standard for how things should be defined. Before we add sets to the tree, maybe there should be some discussion abou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:16:18 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > My understanding is that the cvs tree should be PMS compatible and > since 'sets' are not part of PMS that means that it would be wise not > to use them yet. > It is unfortunate that nobody seems to have realized that all these > years th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Markos Chandras
On 14 August 2013 21:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > >> And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general >> progress in gentoo. > > Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo development works You certainly are not an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, hasufell wrote: > And their lack of time (to be polite) should not block general > progress in gentoo. Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo development works >>> >>> You certainly are not an authority when it comes to that >>> question... >> >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Markos Chandras
On 14 August 2013 21:13, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:03:38 +0200 > Tom Wijsman wrote: >> > Using the conventional view of what a "set" is, >> >> But what kind of view would that be, a mathematical set, a set from a >> prior discussion or a completely different set? I assume th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:03:38 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Using the conventional view of what a "set" is, > > But what kind of view would that be, a mathematical set, a set from a > prior discussion or a completely different set? I assume the first > one. The rather outdated GLEP 21 says they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread hasufell
On 08/14/2013 10:07 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:59:37 +0200 > hasufell wrote: >>> You're fundamentally misunderstanding how PMS and Gentoo development >>> works. >> >> I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding. I think gentoo should >> stop supporting downstreams IF su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:59:37 +0200 hasufell wrote: > > You're fundamentally misunderstanding how PMS and Gentoo development > > works. > > I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding. I think gentoo should > stop supporting downstreams IF supporting them means blocking > progress. What's this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:28:02 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > [.. SNIP ..] Thank you. > > > In order for sets to be added to the tree, we need a spec, we need > > > to decide where sets are allowed (package.mask?), and we need an > > > implementation. > > > > Sets in package.mask sounds unrelia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Michael Weber wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/14/2013 09:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Using the conventional view of what a "set" is, the point is to >> allow you to mask, say, kde7 using a single line, and then define >> w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread hasufell
On 08/14/2013 09:51 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:34:51 +0200 > hasufell wrote: >> On 08/14/2013 03:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17 >>> Sergey Popov napisał(a): >>> 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:53:26 +0200 Michael Weber wrote: > On 08/14/2013 09:51 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo development works should > > be added to the new developer quiz, so we can be sure people > > unders

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/14/2013 09:51 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Perhaps these basic notions of how Gentoo development works should > be added to the new developer quiz, so we can be sure people > understand the appropriate ways of making changes and where the > pow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:34:51 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/14/2013 03:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17 > > Sergey Popov napisał(a): > > > >> 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: > >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > >>> wrote: Right now, howe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/14/2013 09:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Using the conventional view of what a "set" is, the point is to > allow you to mask, say, kde7 using a single line, and then define > what kde7 is using a set. Then the user can unmask kde7 without > h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread hasufell
On 08/14/2013 03:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17 > Sergey Popov napisał(a): > >> 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka >>> wrote: >>> Right now, however, >>> it might be useful if only to get a sense for how th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:57:57 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:09:40 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Er, look at the first post in the thread: > > That was about the repository, not about the PMS; the question was > whether we need to respect the PMS Ask yourself this: if it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:09:40 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Er, look at the first post in the thread: That was about the repository, not about the PMS; the question was whether we need to respect the PMS and why it misses this _feature_, for which no proposed specification exists afaik, so I don

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:54:40 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:56:09 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > > > > > Sergey Popov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Why it was not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > The discussion at stake here is "Can we add sets to the tree? If so, > should everyone be able to do that free or by prior discussion?" and I > don't think that any reply to this whole sub thread benefits anyone. So, I already added my two ce

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:58:01 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:53:09 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > On 08/14/2013 11:44 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:56 +0800 > > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > > > > > So fix PMS to reflect reality. Again.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:56:09 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > > > > Sergey Popov wrote: > > > > > > > > > Why it was not added as a part of the PMS? Some implementation > > > > > flaws? Or maybe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:59:28 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Uhm. Look at the class line. > > > > https://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob;f=sets.conf;h=1f4c4263f48e5360606c1acc97fbab64b03541b7;hb=HEAD > > ... a static identifier. > > I would usually call that a constant. No

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Markos Chandras
On 14 August 2013 16:59, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 11:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:50:36 +0800 >> Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> On 08/14/2013 11:43 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 10

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/14/2013 11:41 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It is one of th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/14/2013 11:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:50:36 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 08/14/2013 11:43 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800 >>> Patrick Lauer wrote: On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 201

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:53:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 11:44 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:56 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 08/14/2013 09:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > > wrote: Righ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:50:56 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > On 08/14/2013 11:41 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > >> Sergey Popov wrote: > >>> I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:50:36 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 11:43 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > >>> Sergey Popov wrote: > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/14/2013 11:44 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:56 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 08/14/2013 09:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > wrote: Right now, however, > it might be useful if only to get a sense for ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/14/2013 11:43 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 >>> Sergey Popov wrote: I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:56 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 09:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > >>> wrote: Right now, however, > >>> it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're being > >>> used, trade ideas, etc. > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:41:03 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS > >> yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/14/2013 09:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka >>> wrote: >>> Right now, however, >>> it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're being used, >>> trade ideas, etc. > No, we can't. Sets are portage-specific, the tree needs to follow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/14/2013 10:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: >> I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS >> yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It >> is one of the long-standing feature of quite exp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:07:32 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > I am all for the standarts, but as we did not brought sets to PMS > yet(when we updated it for EAPI changes), my question is: 'why?'. It > is one of the long-standing feature of quite experimental 2.2_alpha > branch, that should finally come

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Sergey Popov
14.08.2013 17:02, Michał Górny пишет: > Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17 > Sergey Popov napisał(a): > >> 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: >>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka >>> wrote: >>> Right now, however, >>> it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-14, o godz. 16:53:17 Sergey Popov napisał(a): > 14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > > wrote: > > Right now, however, > > it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're being used, > > trade ideas, etc. > > Well,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Sergey Popov
14.08.2013 16:05, Rich Freeman пишет: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka > wrote: > Right now, however, > it might be useful if only to get a sense for how they're being used, > trade ideas, etc. Well, we can use sets as replacement for metapackages(for example, qt-meta, leechcr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Should everyone be free to add sets at will, or should each addition be > discussed first, similar to adding new global USE flags? While I don't want to deter people from creating them, it probably wouldn't hurt to at least do a little bi

[gentoo-dev] Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Palimaka
Now that portage-2.2 is in ~arch, we should now be able to add sets to the tree. How should we go about doing this? In some overlays, the repository root has sets/{foo,bar,etc} and sets.conf which might look like this: [gentoo sets] class = portage.sets.files.StaticFileSet multiset = true dir