[gentoo-dev] Using stow inside portage

[Chris Frey <cdfrey@netdirect.ca>]

Hello friendly developers,

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.

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.

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.

I'm sure there are ebuilds that don't rely completely on econf() and
friends, and these would be harder to update.  Is there anything else
I'm missing?

Thanks,
- Chris


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