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From: Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] doc for write prefix ebuild?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:08:16
Message-Id: b64ef0ce0804220308na5bd017r5873dfd5bf3d7e3f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] doc for write prefix ebuild? by Tobias Hahn
1 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Tobias Hahn <tobhahn@×××.de> wrote:
2 > I'd say it depends, whether you think your ebuilds are so specific to prefix
3 > that they are only useful inside a prefix or whether you think they might be
4 > useful for gentoo/linux as well.
5
6 I'd like to that. However, I have no access to a gentoo linux box now
7 since I switched to MacBook Pro :) I'm afraid if it is good to submit
8 a untested ebuild...
9
10 > As a rule of thumb, the long term goal is to get prefix "accepted" into
11 > mainline gentoo and merged into the main tree. The less changes or the less
12 > changes which are not scriptable by things like ecopy etc., the easier it is
13 > going to be to achieve this. Then again, I don't know how easy it is going
14 > to be to get stuff into the main tree.
15
16 I wish it will be soon to merge into the main tree. I gave macports
17 up because I had a good life with my old gentoo linux laptop, and I
18 don't want to learn another similar package management system.
19
20 > This is just my pov, though I hope to have summarized previous discussions
21 > here correctly.
22
23 It's very clear. Thank you very much :)
24
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26 Qiangning Hong
27 http://www.douban.com/people/hongqn/
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Re: [gentoo-alt] doc for write prefix ebuild? matt hull <mattmatteh@×××.com>
Re: [gentoo-alt] doc for write prefix ebuild? Jeremy <jer.gentoo@×××××.com>