From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j3HGP1VE011816 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:25:01 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2005 16:25:09 -0000 Received: from d130012.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO otherland.msquadrat.de) [80.171.130.12] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 17 Apr 2005 18:25:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #12263026 From: "Malte S. Stretz" Organization: To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:24:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4261A173.3070008@gentoo.org> <4261AA2B.2060400@gentoo.org> <4261B5EF.1000409@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4261B5EF.1000409@gentoo.org> X-Face: $(^e[V4D-[`f2EmMGz@fgWK!e.B~2g.{08lKPU(nc1J~z\4B>*JEVq:E]7G-\6$Ycr4<=?utf-8?q?=3BZ=0A=09!=7CVY6Grt=5D+RsS=24IMV?=)f>2)M="tY:ZPcU;&%it2D81X^kNya0=L]"=?utf-8?q?vZmLP+UmKhgq+u*=5C=2Ed=0A=09J8G!N=26=3DEvlD?= X-Archive: encrypt X-Spam-Checker: SpamAssassin X-Accept-Language: de, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504171825.01143@malte.stretz.eu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: a95b72c6-0b1d-4097-95f4-16b78375349b X-Archives-Hash: 92aa2eb02ee18e1f8faf01676405a400 On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:03 CET Daniel Drake wrote: > Robert Paskowitz wrote: >[...] > > Having portage take your own tree from a particular user's > > home directory on the other hand seems like a bit of a stretch, and no > > necessarily all that useful. > > I would find this useful, but perhaps the things I'm thinking of are just > suited to my style of working rather than a general development scenario. I don't think so; from time to time when I hacked on KDE or SpamAssassin, I thought a feature like the ones you described (ie. treat the ebuilds as mere recipes to build some codebase) would be very cool. Cheers, Malte -- [SGT] Simon G. Tatham: "How to Report Bugs Effectively" [ESR] Eric S. Raymond: "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list