Re: [gentoo-dev] New ideas, USE database, sandbox & more

[Vitaly Kushneriuk]

> > 3)emerge should search for package in category dirs. So that
> >   "emerge gcc" as "emerge sys-devel/gcc"
>
> This would be really cool, I imagine it would be hard to add to portage. (Comments drobbins?)

Not at all It should be less then 20 lines of code. like that (in shell, not checked ):

if [ ! -f $package ] ; then 
  for f in /usr/portage/*/$package ; do
    if [ -d $f ] ; then
       $package=`echo $f | sed 's:^/usr/portage/::'`
       break
    fi
  done
fi


> > 5)Compile and install logs should be stored for future inspection.
> >   Should be realy simple to implement. Just redirect sub shell to
> >   "| tee <logfilename>. Or even "> logfilename" if emerge called with
> >   --silent flag.
>
> Again, this would be really good for backtracking failed builds.
>
> Some really good ideas here but I am not sure it will all fit in with portage.
>
Again, realy easy... I'll do it later if no one volontiers.

    Vitaly.