From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26656 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Nov 2003 16:26:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 28174 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 16:26:18 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: Luke-Jr Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard In-Reply-To: <200311232243.57728.luke-jr@gentoo.org> References: <200311231830.56855.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <877k1qoil5.fsf@jay.local.invalid> <200311232243.57728.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zfevY9Buap3nPB4Syip8" Message-Id: <1069690695.21247.51.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:18:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: b77ab08a-e812-4aa6-9e12-c9523f85d14f X-Archives-Hash: f119a40eb38943357748ed54c64a8e87 --=-zfevY9Buap3nPB4Syip8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:43, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > 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= =20 > 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a penguin? --=-zfevY9Buap3nPB4Syip8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/wi9HkT4lNIS36YERAnqwAJoC9CnKhl96F7c9aPmdxtjmh+CVDwCfU1KZ 5BwuaPlQJ1q6uo2jOlQgUYY= =Lo6h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zfevY9Buap3nPB4Syip8--