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Dewet Diener wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>I mean a program that will parse the RPMs dependencies |
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>>and then use portage to try and satisfy those dependencies, write a |
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>>dummy ebuild, then use portage to install it. |
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> Much like g-cpan.pl? Sounds like a good idea -- the biggest problem |
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> that I can imagine is different naming conventions: RedHat / Mdk |
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> already use (sorta) differing schemes to name packages -- how would |
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> one go about 'translating' this to category/ebuild names? |
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Make the program interactive? If it can't figure it out all by itself |
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(using some kind of algorithm) or if it has a few possibilities, it |
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would prompt the user. |
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Andrew Gaffney |
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