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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> posted |
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robbat2-20090621T215006-739572854Z@××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on |
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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:09:41 -0700: |
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>> Any concerns or ideas for improvement? |
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> /usr/portage might NOT be from the public rsync. - Many devs have it |
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> straight from CVS. - Infra has it stripped of a lot of GUI packages |
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> (like gnome, kde etc). |
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Plus, the PORTDIR setting in /etc/make.conf controls where portage looks |
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for the tree. It doesn't have to be /usr/portage. Here, it's /p (which |
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is a symlink to /str/portage). Now I do happen to have /usr/portage as a |
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symlink to /p, just in case something stupid still has the location hard- |
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coded, but not everyone will have a /usr/portage at all, and in theory, |
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it could in fact be a private overlay or even a user's private home dir. |
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Of course there's also the small detail that not everyone even uses |
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portage, as there are two other Gentoo-pms (package management spec) |
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compatible package managers in the tree, paludis and pkgcore. But |
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portage is still the official Gentoo package manager, and support for the |
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others can always be added later, if desired. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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