[gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com>]

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On Sun, 2004-02-22, 00:59:16 -0800, in <1077440356.1407.158.camel@big_squirt.dol-sen.ca>, Brian <dol-sen@telus.net> wrote:
> --include {world,system,myclass1,myclass2,etc.} for portage to add the
> package to whichever list(s) are specified.  If myclass is not found,
> then create it and add the pkg.  The devs may of course want to exclude
> world(duplication) and system from the acceptable list(used as known
> values for example).

Bonzer idea, mate! Though as a semantics suggestion, I propose
"--add". Portage and the Gentoo initscripts are sufficiently similar
that we may want to maintain the consistency.

In fact, such a change might help to solve some of the FHS issues which
were brought up recently.

 /var/db/pkg/ => /var/lib/portage/class/<classname>/
 /var/cache/edb/world => /var/lib/portage/class/world/contents
 /etc/make.profile/packages => /var/lib/portage/class/system/contents

This may be a difficult change to make right away, due to the many
hard-coded references to /var/db, but is definitely worth keeping in mind
for portage-ng.

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