On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 23:31, James Yonan wrote:

> Just to throw out an idea on creating a generalization to stable/current (I'm
> new to Gentoo, so I'm not sure how much of this has already been done, or to
> what extent these ideas have already been made concrete in the portage concept).
> 
> Why not create a notion of a distribution "checkpoint"?
> 
> A checkpoint is a file that contains all information necessary to build a
> particular gentoo distribution as it existed at some point in time, similar to
> the idea of a cvs tag, or saving the game before you do something that's
> likely to get you killed :)

Unfortunately a big problem with this, is that ebuild do not stick
around long enouth ... except of course if you do it your side.

IMHO, I do not see that we can do it with current implementation
of the portage tree, even if we do not cleanup stuff - as if we
do not, the tree is going to get *too* big.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa