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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The new Portage Job System
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 14:51:13
Message-Id: 01081123521502.00661@desktop.dan.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The new Portage Job System by Daniel Robbins
1 On Saturday 11 August 2001 21:11, you wrote:
2 > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:05:01PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > >
5 > > In accordance with drobbins' wishes, the discussion of the new Portage
6 > > job system moves to gentoo-dev. This is a quick summary of the discussion
7 > > on #gentoo yesterday.
8 >
9 > IMHO, this is overkill. We just need a way of executing certain jobs once;
10 > specifically, jobs that update the /var/db/pkg structure so that moved
11 > packages aren't remerged. I don't want to create something huge to do
12 > this.
13
14 Well, you're welcome to use any part of what I proposed. All I care about is
15 the kde package moving, not the job system itself.
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20 Dan Armak
21 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
22 Matan, Israel