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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass: systemd-next.eclass
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:57:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130413205707.GA31433@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kf9yGzaiPEKmHPMiqmrMgnsU2W=+PUjaasdaTdbA08WA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 04:15:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:43 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I am sending this out for review so we can commit it to the tree
> > when we commit our alternate systemd ebuild in a few days. This will be
> > set up so that users can choose which systemd package they want to
> > install, and it will default to the current systemd package.
> 
> Did I miss some kind of announcement for what is going on here?  An
> additional implementation in portage along with an eclass probably is
> worth some kind of intro on-list.  I don't think you need to seek
> approval/etc, but it would be nice to know what your goals/etc are.
> Is this just a different installation/configuration approach, or is
> this some kind of upstream fork?

It is not an upstream fork, it is a configuration/installation
approach that follows upstream's recommendations for install locations.
It also allows the user more choices wrt which parts of systemd are
built or installed and allows more fine-grained use dependencies for
other packages.

William


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-13 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-13 19:43 [gentoo-dev] new eclass: systemd-next.eclass William Hubbs
2013-04-13 20:15 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-13 20:41   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-04-13 20:57   ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-04-13 21:22     ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-13 21:27 ` Michał Górny
2013-04-13 21:30   ` William Hubbs
2013-04-13 23:41     ` Markos Chandras
2013-04-14  0:49       ` William Hubbs
2013-04-14  5:47         ` Michał Górny

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