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Why not $(portageq newsdir) ? Currently, that would return only the |
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one for main tree, but if/whenever multi repo support it added, it |
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could return a space delimted list. This makes it simple to manage, |
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and lets the portage crew |
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a) figure out what they want to do |
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b) implement it while keeping this working |
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On 12/16/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:18:45 -0800 Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> | I get it. The Portage team asks you to extend your spec, so you turn |
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> | it around and ask them to extend their spec. Ha ha ha. Funny |
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> | game. :) |
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> No no no. The Portage team asked me to extend GLEP 42 to include support |
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> for some random thing that they might introduce in the future. I tell |
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> them no, unless they be a lot more specific about what said random |
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> thing is going to be. |
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> | Brian agreed with you that the extended dep syntax will be necessary |
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> | at some point in the future. I also agree. So, knowing that glep 42 |
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> | doesn't require extended depset syntax, can we stop playing this game |
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> | and just settle on something like newsdir="$(portageq newsdir |
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> | gentoo)"? |
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> What the heck is this 'gentoo' thing, and how does it help? Shoving |
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> newsdir into portageq doesn't help *at all* with multiple repository |
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> support. |
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> -- |
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> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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> Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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> Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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