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From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how CVS ebuilds are managed
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 16:35:18
Message-Id: 20030508163532.GB30451@firinn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] how CVS ebuilds are managed by Abhishek Amit
1 Abhishek Amit [abhishekamit2000@×××××.com] wrote:
2 > I don't even think this is really important, as cvs ebuilds are meant to
3 > be sued sparingly(only when the release version is really old, as gaim
4 > was and I'm sure there are some other critereia that can be used).
5 > gaim-cvs is depreacted now. Perhaps it is just me, but I really don't
6 > see the point in adding mroe features to prtage for three or four
7 > packages.
8
9 I would disagree with this. I have quite a few ebuilds that are in
10 my local portage tree purely so I can run the cvs version of a few
11 appliations and still manage it with portage. It would definately
12 be nice if there was a clean way to handle it within the portage
13 system itself.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] how CVS ebuilds are managed Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>