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Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> when talking to a colleague of mine (he's using Gentoo-Linux, and wants |
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> to use prefixed portage), an idea for the prefix-api came up: |
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<snip> (no room to comment at this time) |
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> Another possible feature in the future (not finished thinking about yet) |
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> could be to have portage install each (non-system-)package into a |
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> separate prefix within its domain, without need to change prefix-api. |
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> This could help ebuild-devs to detect unknown dependencies, which are |
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> not found implicitly if not specified at configure-line. |
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> Well - only for a testing system, and to be enabled explicitly |
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> by setting FEATURES. |
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This sounds a bit like the intentions of DragonflyBSD. Am I |
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miss-understanding you? |
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Nick Dimiduk |
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Gentoo Developer |
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ndimiduk (at) gentoo (dot) org |
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