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On 07:44 Mon 21 Mar , Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> On 03/21/2011 03:21 AM, Colleen Josephson wrote: |
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> > I am potentially interested in the Portage Tags project, or |
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> > something involving improving the wireless support for Gentoo |
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> > installs. Potential expansions to the Portage projects I am |
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> > considering are improving the search speed, and an auto-complete |
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> > similar to Debian's. |
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> For search speed take a look at app-portage/eix. If auto-completer |
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> means telling what to install to get certain binaries then it's quite |
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> hard to implement because the set of installed files depend on USE |
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> flags and and requires actually building all the packages to get the |
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> list. |
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It ought to be fairly easy to build this database on one of the |
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tinderboxes for packages without considering USE flags, and assuming it |
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might be incomplete because you don't build with every USE possibility. |
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In fact, I feel like this, or something extremely similar, was done by |
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Sebastian Pipping in GSoC 2009 and has been in "beta" form since. I use |
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quotation marks because I don't know if anyone's worked on it in the |
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past year. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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