On Wednesday 01 December 2004 22:14, Colin Kingsley wrote:
> >
> > emerge $(cat pfile)
>
> Stop being pedantic. Clearly, the point of this function is to make it
> easy to perform actions on large groups of packages without shell
> magic.

What's wrong with shell magic? It defines unix. Gentoo is not in the 
business of making MsWormOS

> > A better idea would be to convert GRPs to Slackware tgz
>
> How would this be any different? or better? I'd say the ability to
> create, as well as install third party packages is kind of nifty. Why
> would it be better to convert a Gentoo package instead of natively
> creating the .tgz?

Converting .tbz2 packages means that the problems are split up. In a 
future modular portage, tgz, deb, rpm, etc. creation could be performed 
by modules. Until that time, I think it should happen externally.

>
> > > Compilation resume:
> > >   Emerde resumes an interrupted or aborted compilation without
> > > rebuild the pkg and restart the compilation.
> >
> > Portage already does this for me.
>
> No it doesn't. He means that a compile would be resumed from where
> ever it left off, as if you were doing ./configure && make && make
> install  style compilation. Currently, portage will pick up from the
> beginning of the package that was being compiled when it died.

There is a reason that ./configure is rerun. Also most packages have nice 
makefiles  that do not recompile the parts that have been missing. For 
this you do indeed need the ebuild tool as there is no guarantee that it 
is actually safe.

> No? Then where would a tool to manipulate _package_ databases belong?

In a slackware specific wrapper package that wraps around portage such 
that it gets more slack compatibility. Such a package would also ensure 
that the core packages do not come from the gentoo tree, but from 
slackware.

Paul

ps. I myself consider running hybrid distributions dangerous.

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
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