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On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 22:28 +0200, Christian Affolter wrote: |
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> Hi Mike |
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> >> However if I perform an emerge world: |
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> >> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=[...] ROOT=[...] emerge world -vp |
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> >> |
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> >> Portage wants to merge: |
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> >> virtual/editor-0 |
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> >> app-editors/nano |
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> >> |
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> >> virtual/pager-0 |
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> >> sys-apps/less |
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> >> I have enabled less and vi in my busybox, therefore I don't want to |
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> >> install an "external" pager and editor. |
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> > use the profile's package.provided then |
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> Yes, that's what I do at the moment... However it would be much nicer if |
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> the powerful gentoo use and dependency system could be used for this. |
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> Furthermore BusyBox init-scripts (for crond, syslogd etc.) could be |
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> installed according to the enabled use-flags, rather than manually. |
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With as many features as busybox supports this could get out of control |
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quickly with USE= flags for per-options. |
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> Is there something that speaks against such a change? |
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> If not, I'm willing to provide the necessary patches |
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Patches are always most welcome. But I sorta rather tie it to something |
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more simple. Like maybe when 'make-symlinks' is enabled. One can assume |
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he/she is using busybox for the core system. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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