On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:43, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:55 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> > While it is possible to copy the contents of, for example, the three
> > UT2003 CDs to a single directory, and specify this as the CD-ROM path
> > to the ebuild, the lack of package-specific portage configuration files
> > makes this process effectively interactive (since a single environment
> > variable is used to specify the CD-ROM path for all game-related
> > ebuilds).
> Why not look in distfiles for the files you need before even checking the 
> variable's path?

The files have the same names across multiple games.  It would end up
being a maintenance nightmare.  Simply allowing portage to not install
that package during an upgrade would be a much cleaner approach IMO than
attempting to store modified data in distfiles.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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