From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10027 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Nov 2003 23:03:35 -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 5633 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 23:03:34 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200311231830.56855.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <877k1qoil5.fsf@jay.local.invalid> <200311232243.57728.luke-jr@gentoo.org> From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:05:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200311232243.57728.luke-jr@gentoo.org> (luke-jr@gentoo.org's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:43:52 +0000") Message-ID: <873cceofdu.fsf@jay.local.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: 8c387fe0-029b-47b6-8145-572da6767857 X-Archives-Hash: de326dd9eea373c0803d196c17f5b7ec Luke-Jr writes: > On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:55 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: >> While it is possible to copy the contents of, for example, the three >> UT2003 CDs to a single directory, and specify this as the CD-ROM path >> to the ebuild, the lack of package-specific portage configuration files >> makes this process effectively interactive (since a single environment >> variable is used to specify the CD-ROM path for all game-related >> ebuilds). > Why not look in distfiles for the files you need before even checking the > variable's path? UT2003, for example, requires a large number of files, in a specific directory hierarchy, that do not have unique names. If they were to be put in distfiles, it would be necessary, at least, to put them in a subdirectory of distfiles, like ut2003, and such a system is not yet standardized. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list