[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev Digest 20 May 2003 21:51:40 -0000 Issue 126

["donnie berkholz" <donnie.berkholz@richmond.edu>]

But wouldn't it make sense to have a keyword in addition to 'system'
and 'world', something that amounted to 'emerge world-minus-system'?
This would allow easy administration of running all vital packages x86
and all non-system packages ~x86, for those of us who don't want to
destroy the system but just a few packages at a time. =)<br>
<br>
Donnie Berkholz<br>
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  <p><tt> &gt; As far as protecting ebuilds goes, I was actually
referring to the ability <br>
&gt; to mix keywords (i.e. x86 and ~x86) and still upgrade world in an
easy <br>
&gt; manner.&nbsp; I think there should be two source or ebuild systems, one
for the <br>
&gt; base system and one for the "ports".&nbsp; In this manner one can keep
the <br>
&gt; software up to date and yet keep the system stable.&nbsp; I am thinking
along the <br>
&gt; lines of the freebsd ports system, but with ebuilds instead. <br>
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Clearly "-U" needs to get fixed, and I know that carpaski has plans to <br>
do just that.&nbsp; It's worth noting, though, that one of the great <br>
strengths of Gentoo Linux is that there is _no_ separation between <br>
"system" and "ports" as there is in the bsd world; all packages are <br>
handled on an equal footing.&nbsp; That lack of separation is one of the <br>
things that makes Gentoo so useful as a metadistribution -- somebody
who <br>
needs a custom base profile can easily create one. <br>
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-g2boojum- <br>
-- <br>
Grant Goodyear <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:g2boojum@gentoo.org">&lt;g2boojum@gentoo.org&gt;</a> </tt></p>
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