From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outmx019.isp.belgacom.be (outmx019.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.2.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j559PGn1031740 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 09:25:16 GMT Received: from outmx019.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by outmx019.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j559PKxF027039 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 11:25:20 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from [192.168.8.2] (185-1.241.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.241.1.185]) by outmx019.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j559PEGj026986 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 11:25:15 +0200 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <42A2C4F9.2050300@sdf-eu.org> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:25:13 +0200 From: Jonas Geiregat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050520) X-Accept-Language: en-us, 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for mentor References: <42A2399B.3080606@sdf-eu.org> <200506042015.11491.vapier@gentoo.org> <42A24598.1060009@sdf-eu.org> <20050604195427.1e6e0c52@entro.nv.ectrolinux.com> In-Reply-To: <20050604195427.1e6e0c52@entro.nv.ectrolinux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 417a38fe-3246-46f6-a158-cad4ef07c1f3 X-Archives-Hash: 54eea4010e9798fda740cb1c6a53acb4 >I may not have interpreted your message correctly. If I inferred something >from it that you didn't intend to convey, please clarify. > >Developing the Portage software itself is an entirely different process than >creating an ebuild: unless you're planning to contribute enhancement code to >Gentoolkit or Portage, they're just a set of tools for package development and >management. In order to create an ebuild, you need to know what package you >/want/ to bring into the tree. Randomly submitting ebuilds that will shortly >thereafter be without a home is only a recipe for neglected packages. > > > I'm aware of the fact that building portage related software is different from creating ebuilds. I'm interested in the openoffice ebuilds, as well as scheme and some lisp related ebuilds. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list