Re: [gentoo-dev] new package

"Jerry A!" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> : "Jerry A!" wrote:
> : >
> : > I'll do it.  I'll just have to be very careful.  I'll probably start
> : > tackling it by the beginning of next week.  And I'll make sure I give a
> : > general alert/heads up.
> :
> : The only package that really needs care is ORBit. About 50 packages are
> : in dev-perl.
> : I personaly thought that using the sources name as we did it till now
> : makes more sense since it reduces the typing in the scripts.
> : But if you guys are not happy with that change it.
>
> Hmm...  Something to consider here.  I was thinking that user
> expectations are for things to be consistent.  You know, we could always
> try and modify the portage code to ignore case.
>
> Daniel, what do you think of that?
>
> : PS: Jerry have you tested pgcc and is there a package in the tree that I
> : can use here?
>
> Sorry, it's still sitting on my machine waiting for some more tests.
> I'm one of those people who hates committing anything to a tree before
> unless it's more-or-less done.  I'll commit what I have when I get home.
>

Well that doesn't work for me because I'm testing packages during
development on different machines with different ARCH,OPT and USE flags.
But I only change current-packages if I'm sure the package is stable.

achim~

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