Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:44:04 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
| What would be more interesting is something like app-portage/g-cpan
| for various themes sites. This way, individual themes wouldn't need
| to get packaged and maintained.

If anyone's looking to experiment with this kind of thing... Paludis
supports multiple repository formats. We're already supporting CRAN,
and we might do CPAN, CTAN, that Ruby thingie at some point (although
those're trickier because of conflicts with in-tree stuff).

I looked into doing it for vim.org, although there's no standard
package format there and no easy way of figuring out where to install
something if it's just shipped as a .vim file (is it a colour scheme, a
plugin, an ftplugin, an indent script, ...?). That's the biggie here --
is there a standard upstream format for whatever it is they're
distributing?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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