From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15476 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 15:12:12 -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 5738 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 15:12:11 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert To: Luke-Jr , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:09:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041515.45974.stuart@gentoo.org> <200310041436.43568.luke-jr@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310041436.43568.luke-jr@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_mKuf/mL9V0/DW5s"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310041609.26575.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 4ecb16d8-dcee-4048-a917-dfa51e5bf7f0 X-Archives-Hash: 861ac0fd22623afc62ece2285c252754 --Boundary-02=_mKuf/mL9V0/DW5s Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 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=20 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=20 example, and I would be interested in having both of those installed at the= =20 same time. > It would be making the linux ebuilds' src_compile actually do what it was > meant to do.=20 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.=20 Is that true? I thought the category was part of the package name. > call it Gentoo GNU/Linux.=20 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 t= his=20 behaviour is documented? I don't like assumptions. Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruis= e/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_mKuf/mL9V0/DW5s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/fuKmDC+AuvmvxXwRAmZAAKCvNbCVihpPWJeQzerG6LqKuLWrbgCgqbEQ aba+xFN7SEYPwB0KF3AKnBg= =bYyc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_mKuf/mL9V0/DW5s--