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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=live (instead of
From:       Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-08-25 17:05:15
Message-ID: 20080825170515.GA6438 () comet
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On 13:39 Sat 23 Aug     , Zac Medico wrote:
> Please consider a PROPERTIES=live value that, when set in an ebuild,
> will serve to indicate that the ebuild will use some form of "live"
> source code that may vary each time that the package is installed.
> The intention is for PROPERTIES=live to have a relatively pure and
> simple meaning. Therefore, the definition is intentionally more
> narrow than the definitions previously suggested for the related
> RESTRICT=live [1] and PROPERTIES=live-sources [2] values. In the
> future we may add additional (orthogonal) properties to represent
> other things like locking [3].

Here's what I'd like to see from this whole PROPERTIES discussion.

- Are the PROPERTIES more fine-grained than they need to be?
- Are the common use cases specifiable by a single PROPERTIES setting 
  that may actually do multiple things on the back end?

If there's actually reasons for these things to be very narrow, I'd like 
to see easily usable meta-properties that let people easily say 
something like "I've got a live CVS ebuild" without specifying 20 
different PROPERTIES.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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