From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6943 invoked by uid 1002); 21 May 2003 01:54:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7230 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 01:54:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:50:38 -0500 From: "donnie berkholz" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1053467500.16326.ezmlm@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <3ECADB6E.6050202@richmond.edu> References: <1053467500.16326.ezmlm@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: AOL Communicator Preview Release (20030227.3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/HTML; CHARSET=us-ascii X-Apparently-From: OnTopOfYa@aol.com Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev Digest 20 May 2003 21:51:40 -0000 Issue 126 X-Archives-Salt: 3cff68ec-4597-4ad5-894b-01d8ba1630b8 X-Archives-Hash: 564f5b25ff8981dc014fc4a44e2d9607 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. =)

Donnie Berkholz

gentoo-dev-digest-help@gentoo.org wrote:

Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4 still marked unstable?
Date: 10:23 AM
From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

> As far as protecting ebuilds goes, I was actually referring to the ability
> to mix keywords (i.e. x86 and ~x86) and still upgrade world in an easy
> manner.  I think there should be two source or ebuild systems, one for the
> base system and one for the "ports".  In this manner one can keep the
> software up to date and yet keep the system stable.  I am thinking along the
> lines of the freebsd ports system, but with ebuilds instead.

Clearly "-U" needs to get fixed, and I know that carpaski has plans to
do just that.  It's worth noting, though, that one of the great
strengths of Gentoo Linux is that there is _no_ separation between
"system" and "ports" as there is in the bsd world; all packages are
handled on an equal footing.  That lack of separation is one of the
things that makes Gentoo so useful as a metadistribution -- somebody who
needs a custom base profile can easily create one.

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>

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