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We could implement some kind of ebuild-link then? 'inherit app-editors/jedit'? |
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On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:09 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:52, Jean Jordaan wrote: |
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> > >> but how about make more than 2 |
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> > >> levels in portage, as in OpenBSD's ports tree ? |
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> > My personal feeling is that many packages don't belong in only one |
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> > category. E.g. in portage currently: |
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> > * app-text/yudit |
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> > Description: free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices |
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> > * app-editors/jedit |
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> > Description: Programmer's editor written in Java |
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> > Both make sense, and app-editors/yudit & app-editors/yudit would |
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> > also make sense. Instead of categories, ebuilds should have a |
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> > CATEGORY variable. E.g. |
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> Portage support would be required to support deeper trees. The problem |
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> with symlinks is that we use CVS for our portage tree, which doesn't |
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> support symlinks (or graceful renaming, or ...); unfortunately, it's the |
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> best game in town for us right now. |
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> I agree w/ Vapier on this one. The short-term fix should be fine, and |
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> I, too, would like to see support for a more heirarchical portage tree |
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> in a future version of portage. |
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> -g2boojum- |
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