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From: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development'
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:12:04
Message-Id: 412AB2E2.2030202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development' by Peter Gordon
1 Peter Gordon wrote:
2
3 > Couldn't we just use different ebuild versions?
4 >
5 > # emerge ">=gentoo-sources-2.6"
6 > # emerge "=gentoo-sources-2.4.27"
7 >
8 > Or something similar? Would that work?
9
10 This is possible, but not always a preferred solution. I mix 2.4 and
11 2.6 sources for mips-sources, but currently leave 2.6 sources keyword
12 masked (despite they're needed for O2 and Origin-class systems).
13
14 On mechanism would be profile-level control to mask 2.6 on one profile,
15 and enable it on another. though.
16
17
18 --Kumba
19
20 --
21 "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world:
22 small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are
23 elsewhere." --Elrond
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development' Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>