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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] creating ebuilds
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:55:18
Message-Id: 20040106204533.156247a8@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] creating ebuilds by George Shapovalov
1 On 01/06/04 George Shapovalov wrote:
2
3 > That description is based around the idea of "splitting" the tree (via
4 > the means of KEYWORDS for example, but lots have changed since, we
5 > might want another way now) into "official" (with its further
6 > stable/testing) and "user" areas (considered less stable by portage.
7 > This makes these submissions automatically visible and easy to install
8 > for those who care, but retains them invisible (and perhaps even
9 > unfetchable) for those who dont).
10
11 Maybe I should say again that I'm working on a portage feature to allow
12 emerge to sync from multiple repositories, see bugs 28796 and 35535.
13 That should solve most existing (technical) problems for offering
14 ebuilds outside
15 the official tree.
16
17 Marius
18
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22 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
23 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.