[gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds

["Timo Horstschäfer" <timo.horstschaefer@gmail.com>]

A few day ago i thought about ebuilds without a version number.
The thing is to fetch all files via cvs and then do the things you do
with a normal ebuild.

After fetching the files all the content will be packed into a bz2
archive and saved in /usr/portage/distfiles/
i.e. if i emerge again the stored bz2archive will be extracted and
synced with cvs again.
So i can always can get the newest version without waiting for an ebuild.

Of course those packages are marked ~* anytime and nobody can promise,
the compiling won't fail.

Another feature could be to save the bz2 archive with the date of
fetching in its name.
Then i could use an old archive if there is i great bug in the newest files.

I want to read some opinions about this, it's just an idea.

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