From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4BAa7Mo003132 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 10:36:07 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVoZY-0005YU-6m for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 10:36:12 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DVoRs-0000pV-HT for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:28:16 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:28:16 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:28:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New category proposal Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 03:35:27 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <20050508235004.GL6541@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> <20050509001920.GC12085@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050509170725.GC21777@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1115717301.25756.14.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20050510110404.GB5931@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050511033055.GC16717@exodus.wit.org> <20050511042745.GA22277@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050511050920.GC17034@exodus.wit.org> <20050511065023.GE17034@exodus.wit.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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 1d1ed3eb-9caf-4eab-b405-273e43de8a7f X-Archives-Hash: 1d1f8454b8b71f45dd2a6a51ff37bd46 Duncan posted , excerpted below, on Wed, 11 May 2005 03:03:14 -0700: > I see I didn't effectively convey what I wanted, then, if the description > is a "huge-ass block of requests". =8^) Let's see if I can reword it a > bit more effectively... > > What I had in mind (and tried to describe), was a /single/ (if large) > /general/ feature, call it FEATURE=binpkg-name, to be combined with a > second parameter enabled by that feature, BINPKG-NAME=. Never mind... It seems the feature I wanted is already there, only I wasn't thinking broadly enough. Georgi Georgiev pointed it out... My proposal would have allowed a bit more automation, but at FAR more complexity. Better leaving well enough alone. Portage's flexibility in sysadmin customizability continues to amaze me. It really /is/ an awesome system Gentoo has built, when one thinks about it. =8^) Sometimes in the minutia of discussion we (I, anyway) forget just how awesomely flexible the existing toolset actually is! Definitely "standing on the shoulders of giants", we owe drobbins and indeed, the FBSD ports system from which he got a lot of inspiration, a great deal of gratitude. That's not forgetting current developers, of course. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list