From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20425 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 17:21:16 -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 10986 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 17:21:15 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Stuart Herbert , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:20:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041436.43568.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200310041609.26575.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310041609.26575.stuart@gentoo.org> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310041721.07924.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 6400e838-fd73-4453-ba1a-c0dc6cb914c5 X-Archives-Hash: c40969fb8d481e7565327681058bc1ee =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 03:09 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: > That could get messy. What exactly is the problem that you're touting yo= ur > solution for? How could it get messy? In theory, after src_unpack, /var/tmp/portage/*/wor= k=20 should be a source tree for the package. > > > It would be making the linux ebuilds' src_compile actually do what it w= as > > meant to do. > Say's who? ;-) http://dictionary.com/search?q=3Dcompile > > > IMO, categories are merely useful for when searching for packages and > > shouldn't really be needed for knowing what a package is especially sin= ce > > two packages cannot have the same name. > Is that true? I thought the category was part of the package name. If it were part of the package name, why aren't the database firebird and t= he=20 browser firebird allowed to have the same name? > > > call it Gentoo GNU/Linux. > I won't bite that troll-bait ;-) Referring to my system running Linux for a kernel and using mostly GNU tool= s=20 for everything else (C library; ls,cp,mv,sed) > > > 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. Just because I think it is possible to do doesn't mean I know how to do it = ;) =46or example, I know it's possible to make a Java ebuild, but I don't know= =20 where to start for that. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fwF9Zl/BHdU+lYMRAgY/AJ9b4UET9INooy1yX5oJOUxmpIuJogCeIQcL YA3OJdr5UwfBfwCGlaOMnlA=3D =3DgJXf =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list