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From: Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:16:08
Message-Id: 200408091815.42260.absinthe@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) by Olivier Crete
1 On Monday 09 August 2004 6:02 pm, Olivier Crete wrote:
2 >
3 > just replace the tree entirely "rm -rf /usr/portage, tar xjvf
4 > newportage.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage" for "major upgrades"... or using an
5 > overlay for minor local stuff... I like the idea of keeping my
6 > "official" tree pure and then having nicely separated overlays.
7 >
8
9 I think it would be fine to allow people to do it this way, and some people
10 already do, but I don't think it should be part of Enterprise Gentoo.
11 Profiling isn't complex. Trying to support the millions of different ways
12 people can set up overlays is.
13
14 Cheers,
15 Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o]
16 Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F
17
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>