Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@×××××××××××.org>
To: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@××××××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage and /usr/local
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:48:19
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209041347130.25557-100000@palanthas.neverending.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Portage and /usr/local by Eric Jacoboni
1 Eric Jacoboni, on 2002-09-04, wrote:
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3 > - is this possible to get a description of what a ebuild is for ? On
4 > *BSD ports, there is a DESCR file which contains a short
5 > description, along with the master site URL. I find this short
6 > descr very useful as, given the crowd of availables ebuilds, it's
7 > sometimes difficult to find the one that best fits my need.
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9 It's tucked away in the pretty much usess spot as a var in the .ebuild
10 file. The BSD pkg-descr file is a much better design, IMO.
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13 Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/