Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Bob Phan]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Zach Forrest wrote:

> Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 13 May 2002 12:01 pm, Zach Forrest wrote:
> >
> >>I believe you'll need to add your category to:
> >>   /usr/portage/profiles/categories
> >
> >
> > That was indeed the trick I was looking for!  Many thanks!
> >
> I'm glad it worked. I just wanted to mention that I don't think the
> categories file is config protected, so you might have to modify it
> whenever portage is updated, or add the /usr/portage/profiles directory
> to CONFIG_PROTECT (which would be a *huge* pain to protect that one
> file). I think a better idea would be to have a CATEGORIES variable in
> /etc/make.globals that would allow the addition of custom categories;
> the categories would then be composed of the official categories with
> the custom categories listed in CATEGORIES appended to the list. You
> might want to file a feature request through bugzilla for this.

Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
to implement.

It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
as simple to implement.

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