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On 16-11-2010 11:59:16 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: |
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> > is there a reason the gentoo installed svn wont work ? |
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> 1. Mac OS X 10.5 comes with not-so-ancient SVN |
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that is defined by time, and won't hold for long |
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> 2. SVN is big enough so I expect long compilation |
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many things do, that's Gentoo live |
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> 3. I assume SVN is used by portage only as a command-line tool |
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it's actually not used in normal operation by Portage, but it may be |
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used as library by other consumers. |
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Fixing that and dependencies is much harder than just compiling a proper |
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version that we know what it's doing instead of relying upon some |
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unknown-version unknown-compiled version of a package. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |