[gentoo-dev] Re: ANN: broken-up kde ebuilds (aka 'emerge kmail')

[Duncan]

Dan Armak posted <200410200638.28878.danarmak@g.o>, excerpted
below,  on Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:38:21 +0200:

> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 00:42, Duncan wrote:
>> Ugly!  Is the cache kept in such a way that for specific things like this,
>> one can go in and excise them using sed and the like?
>
> Yes. Just run it once and look in /var/cache/confcache... We keep the
> configure cache file as-is and another text file with file->checksum
> mappings, and a third file with env variable values (if eg $CC changes, the
> cache is dumped).

Thanks.  Whatever else it may be (and it definitely has it's strong
points), Gentoo is certainly a continuing learning experience!  It's neat
to see how these things work, and even neater in contrast with the UNFREE
World of software in which I was up to a couple years ago.  It STILL
amazes me how all this not only code but development is conducted out in
the open where just anyone can examine and learn from it, hopefully
eventually contributing themselves.  Going back now is as unthinkable as
asking the defector whether he'd go back, until the old rule falls, anyway.

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