From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLrhS-0003iE-Qx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:32:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k891V3NS004601; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:31:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k891ReTD016855 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:27:40 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA4A64622 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31258-21 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB5464310 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GLrd6-0000G0-6r for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:27:32 +0200 Received: from static24-72-114-127.yorkton.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.114.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:27:32 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by static24-72-114-127.yorkton.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:27:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development! Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:19:09 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20060906102911.GD25413@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-114-127.yorkton.accesscomm.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0a1 (X11/20060905) In-Reply-To: <20060906102911.GD25413@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.06 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.418, BAYES_00=-2.599, DATE_IN_PAST_24_48=0.88, TW_KG=0.077] X-Spam-Score: -2.06 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: ab578166-3998-461b-83ee-4f413ec25883 X-Archives-Hash: e5a243acdcfc1e3d70735a421d269f98 Elfyn McBratney wrote: > I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently > posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently > joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian > (ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are. > My personal one is why updates/ and binpkg mangling takes so long in > portage-$current. But I'd like to know, what are everyone elses? I've been thinking about this lately too. I think it would be a good idea to come up with as many different use cases as we can think of and figure out what we can already do, what we would like to do, and the best way to do it. > I know that this topic have been rehashed since the dawn of > time^Wgentoo-dev, but these things get lost, opinions change... and > since last year, new and viable alternate package managers have > cropped up. So, basically I'd like to ask all on this list: - what > package manager features would make *your* life easier? - current pet peeve is some way of dealing with SRC_URI's that use dynamic redirects to the source files (eg. http://nwvault.ign.com/fms/Download.php?id=57167 -> http://someserver.com/randomlygeneratedhashthatchangeseveryhour/the_HeX_coda_01_v1.3.zip). Since the name of the file fetched (the_HeX_coda_01_v1.3.zip) != the one in SRC_URI (Download.php?id=57167) portage bombs. right now i have to use RESTRICT="fetch" which sucks. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list