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On Friday 12 October 2001 01:23, you wrote: |
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> > Has someone ever thought about using this? |
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> Heck yea!! Until you mentioned stow just now, I didn't even know about it. |
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I think the concept itself isn't too new it just seems that few people use it. |
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> If you have solid package management, then the importance of using this kind |
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> of 'stow' scheme is not as great. It sure is the only way to go if you |
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> hand-compile a lot. |
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Which is done using ebuild ;) |
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> Slightly off-topic: If I understand this right, emerge seems to delete the |
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> sources after it is done with the build. |
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I agree. The build is done in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR deleting the files after |
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compiling. |
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> I think it would be great if it |
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> could permanently leave the sources installed, as an option, so that you |
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> could tweak them by hand without tweaking .ebuild files. |
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Shouldn't be too hard to implement. What do the portage-hackers say about it? |
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