Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:01:58
Message-Id: 4679B116.4040405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > what are the use cases for binary packages?
3
4 Apart from those already mentioned by Chris, I use FEATURES=buildpkg to
5 be able to recover from a catastrophic experiment with a package's
6 content, for being able to quickly reinstall it. Although it's lame,
7 it's pretty easy to run `emerge -K foo` to get vanilla config files.
8
9 Cheers,
10 -jkt
11
12 --
13 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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