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On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:25:52 -0500 |
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Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> An "phony" ebuild in an overlay would do what you wanted, I think. |
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Maybe. I have not tried it. |
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I don't want to be overly critical of Gentoo (after all, it's the best |
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thing that's happened to my Linux computing universe in a long while), but |
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it seems that package.provided needs some extra capability. |
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There are some requests on bugs.gentoo.org that package.provided be |
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extended in various ways. In my opinion, package.provided should accomplish |
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just what the name implies. It should indicate that the Gentoo user |
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has compiled his own version of an ebuild (for whatever reason) and |
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if a newer ebuild exists, regardless of dependencies, this should be |
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indicated to the user (as it is with a normally emerged ebuild). |
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These are just my opinions. Whatever course of action the Gentoo |
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developers take is fine with me. Gentoo has improved my Linux experience |
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so much that it's hard to find any complaint. |
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Frank Peters |
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