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On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:51 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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> > If I have some application that is not included in portage why |
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> > I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be |
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> > accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big |
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> > thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + |
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> > dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile |
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> > package right from .tar.gz archive. |
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> Many people disagree with you here, that's why overlays exist. Somebody |
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> wants to use Portage to manage ebuilds that aren't yet in the actual tree. |
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I have to say I agree with Donnie here on this. |
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I've been using private ebuilds for certain things that are installed on |
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my work systems that will never be applicable to anyone except for 4 |
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people on this planet. Yet I use these because then I'm able to take |
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this simple single file, plonk it into another Gentoo machine and |
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recreate the same installation. Maybe it is just because making ebuilds |
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is now just second nature to me. |
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Look at my overlay at the moment, half the stuff there have a less than |
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30% chance of ever making it into the main portage tree. But I still |
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make those ebuilds in the off chance that either (a) I do decide to put |
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them in, or (b) someone else might stumble across them and find it, and |
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(c) there are just things that I cannot test because I don't have the |
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hardware. |
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Proxy-dev and sunrise are completely different things. But both are |
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trying to decrease the steps needed to contribute to open source, so in |
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my book, that is a good thing. |
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Cheers, |
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Alastair |
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