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On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:43, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:55 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: |
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> > While it is possible to copy the contents of, for example, the three |
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> > UT2003 CDs to a single directory, and specify this as the CD-ROM path |
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> > to the ebuild, the lack of package-specific portage configuration files |
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> > makes this process effectively interactive (since a single environment |
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> > variable is used to specify the CD-ROM path for all game-related |
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> > ebuilds). |
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> Why not look in distfiles for the files you need before even checking the |
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> variable's path? |
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The files have the same names across multiple games. It would end up |
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being a maintenance nightmare. Simply allowing portage to not install |
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that package during an upgrade would be a much cleaner approach IMO than |
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attempting to store modified data in distfiles. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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