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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:18 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> This doesn't help me. I'm not a programmer - I'm a guitar player. I |
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> don't read ebuilds at all. Completely a foreign language to me... |
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Ebuilds are bash shell scripts actually. There is a certain order that |
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functions are called and a set of default functions to call. Any |
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functions that are in the ebuild are overloaded functions and perform |
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the same task but slightly differently. The bash manual page should |
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help out here as well as the developers handbook here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ |
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> I appreaciate the info a lot. Thanks! |
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No problem. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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Tres Melton |
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IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat |
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