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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: Michael Kohl <citizen428@××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (FS) Attributes for Ebuilds?
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:39:11
Message-Id: 20030605093907.GB18440%chutz@gg3.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] (FS) Attributes for Ebuilds? by Michael Kohl
1 On 05/06/2003 at 14:47:33(+0000), Michael Kohl used 2.1Kbytes, just to say:
2 > Hi all!
3 >
4 > Following all the recent discussion about categories in the Portage
5 > tree, having packages in several categories at once, defining key words
6 > for packages to ease finding a similar package an idea came to my mind.
7 >
8 > Would it be possible to use filesystem attributes for Ebuilds (of course
9 > only if the FS supports this, maybe a local useflag can do the trick)?
10 > This would allow users to build categories "on the fly" using a kind of
11 > live query mechanism.
12
13 What happens when one rsyncs?
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15 Do you define attributes for each .ebuild or maybe on a per package basis (i.e.
16 the directory). Ebuilds change a little too often after all.
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