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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] We have "doc" USE flag, why not a "man" USE flag too
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:41:05
Message-Id: 20050811154053.3cc07279@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] We have "doc" USE flag, why not a "man" USE flag too by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:26:49 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Thursday 11 August 2005 07:02 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
5 > > With noman and the like, how's the following for a solution? A lot
6 > > of the ebuild functions contained within portage will be moving
7 > > into the tree once signing is in. What about adding
8 > > {pre,post}_src_{compile,install,...} hooks into portage that will
9 > > live in the tree that USE="man" support can be implemented in
10 > > globally? For those packages that have a specific interest, the USE
11 > > flag will be available. Everything should be happy on the ebuild
12 > > side of things. (On the U/I side of things, stuff can be done to
13 > > cut down the noise.)
14 >
15 > so you're saying that the default ebuild.sh functions are going to be
16 > moving into the tree to a place which will be auto-sourced before the
17 > ebuild and its eclasses ?
18 > -mike
19
20 If you read it again you'll notice the {pre,post} part ;)
21 IIRC that's already in HEAD for /etc/portage/bashrc, so extending it to
22 $PORTDIR shouldn't be an issue.
23
24 Marius
25
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29 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
30 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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