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Here's the current bug/feature/testing list for Portage: |
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1. For package installs, runtime dependencies should be calculated using the USE |
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setting contained in the .tbz2 metadata rather than the USE setting in |
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/etc/make.conf/defaults. |
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2. Add MULTIPLE support. Make Portage default to only allowing a single version of |
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a package installed at one time. MULTIPLE will allow users to override this |
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behavior: |
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MULTIPLE="major" or 1 means that foo/bar-1.0 and foo/bar-2.0 can be installed together |
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MULTIPLE="minor" or 2 means that foo/bar-1.0, 2.0, and 2.1 can be installed together |
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MULTIPLE=3,4,5,etc. |
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MULTIPLE=0 means no restrictions (even foo/bar-1.0 and foo/bar-1.0-r1 can be installed together) |
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Also need to add a system-wide override option for this one. |
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3. Test out virtual package database ops, making sure that "!virtual/mta" will prevent |
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multiple installs of MTAs. |
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4. Add csh support to env-update |
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5. Upgrade fetch feature to eliminate partial download problem |
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6. Enhance /usr/sbin/ebuild so that it can recursively merge packages. Base this |
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on the digraph code in /usr/sbin/pkgmerge |
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7. Add system profile support to the portage-maintain code |
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Once we get all these things working, I think we should be able to focus almost |
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exclusively on other aspects of Gentoo Linux and move towards Gentoo Linux 2.0. |
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Once we fix other weak areas (such as a lack of an optional easy |
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installer/optional easy system configuration tool), I can focus on developing |
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xbuild, the successor to ebuild. xbuild is intended to be even nicer than |
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ebuild, with more features and even better performance. Since by the time we |
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start using xbuild, we'll probably have close to 2,000 packages, a smooth |
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transition is going to be important, and should be quite easy. It's likely |
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that we can convert our entire tree over using a sed or awk script. |
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So, if you'd like a major feature to be added to ebuild, speak up now, or you |
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may need to wait a bit! :) |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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