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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 15:29 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: |
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>>Alternatives/better approaches I'd be open to, although I'll admit up |
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>>front I think what you're attempting needs to be pkg specific, which |
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>>implies DESCRIPTION in the ebuild (to me at least). |
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> Snipping pretty much everything since I *really* don't care. |
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> I'm just dumping this idea. I was proposing it because of a |
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> conversation with a user where we thought it would be a good idea to |
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> give the user some way of knowing that a package requires some |
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> additional purchased (or otherwise obtained) portion that is not a |
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> distfile/tarball. Anyway, you seem to have done a good job of |
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> convincing me of whatever it is you think you've convinced me of, but |
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> the truth is I just didn't care enough to bother getting into some |
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> pointless pissing match over something that I didn't feel very strongly |
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> about in the first place. Basically, you "win" by default of me just |
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> not caring enough to argue anymore. |
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A. The above is kind of sad in terms of the outcome, I'm sorry more |
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people didn't jive with your idea, but there is no need to cry about it. |
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B. Whats wrong with stuffing it into metadata.xml and modifying p.g.o |
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to pull the extra data out? It certainly isn't that complicated. Or |
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just modify the DESCRIPTION field. "Doom3" -> DESCRIPTION = " A popular |
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first person shooter. This game requires a license key to play." Simple no? |
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-Alec Warner |
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