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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:04:58 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> |
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| Said spec covers profiles also; mentioning at least the existance of |
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| the misc STAGE* settings isn't a horrible idea, even if not going |
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| into detail- anyone digging through the profiles will see them, and |
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| likely wonder why they're there, and why quite a few profiles specify |
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| an extra set of use lists. |
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Anything about STAGE* will be "package manager specific". The whole |
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concept of stages is basically a workaround for Portage limitations. |
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| While writing the sucker out, I'd expect you'll come across things |
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| where gentoo has a specific way of doing it, which isn't required by |
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| the manager. The suggestion would be to track that somehow, or look |
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| at mangling the devmanual so that it's just diffs against the spec. |
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The devmanual and PMS are two entirely different things. Think of the |
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devmanual as "The C++ Programming Language" plus "The C++ Standard |
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Library" and PMS as "ISO/IEC 14882:2003". |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |
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