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