On Saturday 04 October 2003 3:36 pm, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Packages don't neccesarilly need to be a kernel at all. If -src were
> implemented, there would be apache-src, kdelibs-src, gcc-src, etc...

That could get messy.  What exactly is the problem that you're touting your 
solution for?

> As it is, kernels are a non-standard set of ebuilds. There is always value
> is standardizing things.

Yeah, but standardisation can become a goal in of itself, and that's not 
healthy.

> w/o the module's version. You don't want to install ALSA 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 at
> the same time, do you?

Probably not, no.  But cloop-0.68 isn't compatible with cloop-1.0, for 
example, and I would be interested in having both of those installed at the 
same time.

> It would be making the linux ebuilds' src_compile actually do what it was
> meant to do. 

Say's who? ;-)

> It would also be adding a feature to portage so one could
> append -src to the end of any ebuild and get only the result of src_unpack
> in their /usr/src dir.

Interesting, for sure.

> IMO, categories are merely useful for when searching for packages and
> shouldn't really be needed for knowing what a package is especially since
> two packages cannot have the same name. 

Is that true?  I thought the category was part of the package name.

> call it Gentoo GNU/Linux. 

I won't bite that troll-bait ;-)

> AFAIK, this already should work. Note I don't use -u nor the world
> metakeyword (at least until Portage supports sticky USE), though.

But have you personally tested it, or can you point me to somewhere where this 
behaviour is documented?  I don't like assumptions.

Stu
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