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Hello friendly developers, |
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I looked briefly at the emerge build scripts, and it seems to me that it |
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would be fairly easy to incorporate the usage of stow inside the |
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portage system. |
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econf() would need to be changed to read the --prefix directory from |
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a portage-stow configuration file, and tack on the name of the package |
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with version. |
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install and uninstall would need to be changed to call stow and stow -D |
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if stow was in the USE flags. |
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This would allow people to maintain different versions of the same |
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application on their systems at the same time. Just stow/unstow at will |
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to switch. |
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I'm sure there are ebuilds that don't rely completely on econf() and |
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friends, and these would be harder to update. Is there anything else |
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I'm missing? |
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Thanks, |
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- Chris |
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