Re: [gentoo-dev] A couple questions about portage.

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 24/07/2004-14:50:47(+0200): Carsten Lohrke types
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> On Saturday 24 July 2004 05:46, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > > I know, but having to maintain such a list by hand seems like extra
> > > unnessicary work.
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> > Add to that the speed penalty. Portage becomes a few times slower if you
> > have about 15-20 packages in package.keywords.
>
> Right, but I see no reason why there are no options like emerge
> - --set-use/--set-keywords (or another script that does this). Having to fiddle
> around with these files by hand is annoying.

I agree. Plus packages get moved around or renamed quite often. Though this
could be accomplished with some other script that reads
$PORTDIR/profiles/updates. However, I believe that emerge should take care of
this on "sync".

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