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On Saturday 04 October 2003 3:36 pm, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> Packages don't neccesarilly need to be a kernel at all. If -src were |
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> implemented, there would be apache-src, kdelibs-src, gcc-src, etc... |
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That could get messy. What exactly is the problem that you're touting your |
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solution for? |
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> As it is, kernels are a non-standard set of ebuilds. There is always value |
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> is standardizing things. |
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Yeah, but standardisation can become a goal in of itself, and that's not |
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healthy. |
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> w/o the module's version. You don't want to install ALSA 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 at |
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> the same time, do you? |
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Probably not, no. But cloop-0.68 isn't compatible with cloop-1.0, for |
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example, and I would be interested in having both of those installed at the |
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same time. |
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> It would be making the linux ebuilds' src_compile actually do what it was |
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> meant to do. |
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Say's who? ;-) |
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> It would also be adding a feature to portage so one could |
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> append -src to the end of any ebuild and get only the result of src_unpack |
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> in their /usr/src dir. |
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Interesting, for sure. |
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> IMO, categories are merely useful for when searching for packages and |
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> shouldn't really be needed for knowing what a package is especially since |
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> two packages cannot have the same name. |
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Is that true? I thought the category was part of the package name. |
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> call it Gentoo GNU/Linux. |
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I won't bite that troll-bait ;-) |
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> AFAIK, this already should work. Note I don't use -u nor the world |
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> metakeyword (at least until Portage supports sticky USE), though. |
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But have you personally tested it, or can you point me to somewhere where this |
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behaviour is documented? I don't like assumptions. |
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Stu |
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