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Florian Huber wrote: |
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> Hello developers, |
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> it would be great if could apply patches to a certain sources code |
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> _without_ re-writing the ebuild or installing/injecting it. |
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For what it's worth, I've answered this exact question for folks in |
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#gentoo more times than need be. For some people, patches are required |
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(qmail comes to mind as one of the more popular user-patched packages) |
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for their environment. While editing an ebuild is not *that* difficult, |
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for people new to gentoo or used to just grabbing the source, it's an |
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added step that is arguably unnecessary. Using ebuild (the script, not |
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the format) to step through the build is easier than editing the ebuild |
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itself but adds the issues of ignoring dependencies. |
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Just $0.02USD. |
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Eric Sammer |
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eric@××××××××××××.com |
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http://www.ineoconcepts.com |
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