Re: [gentoo-dev] Using stow inside portage

[Andrew Ross <aross@westnet.com.au>]

On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 16:23, Chris Frey wrote:
> I looked briefly at the emerge build scripts, and it seems to me that it
> would be fairly easy to incorporate the usage of stow inside the
> portage system.

Are you talking about this (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html)?

> econf() would need to be changed to read the --prefix directory from
> a portage-stow configuration file, and tack on the name of the package
> with version.
> 
> install and uninstall would need to be changed to call stow and stow -D
> if stow was in the USE flags.

I agree with vapier that an eclass would be the best way to implement
stow support. However, optional eclass inheritence makes DEPEND and IUSE
dynamic, which, IIRC, is currently a big no-no.

> This would allow people to maintain different versions of the same
> application on their systems at the same time.  Just stow/unstow at will
> to switch.

Isn't that the purpose of SLOTs?

Cheers

Andrew



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