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On Friday 28 July 2006 20:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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> > If I have some application that is not included in portage why |
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> > I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be |
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> > accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big |
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> > thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + |
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> > dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile |
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> > package right from .tar.gz archive. |
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> Many people disagree with you here, that's why overlays exist. Somebody |
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> wants to use Portage to manage ebuilds that aren't yet in the actual tree. |
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I'm one of those. Portage namely is also a package manager allowing what using |
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the tarbal method does not: file tracking and deinstallation. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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