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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] xattr wrapper for install, bug #465000
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:43:55
Message-Id: 7032574.jMnViApMpc@vapier
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] xattr wrapper for install, bug #465000 by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Sunday, January 26, 2014 17:53:44 Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > 1) I'm not 100% sure how to do that.
3
4 we'll have to (re-)introduce support for building C files. shouldn't be too
5 hard to start a new directory to hold all the C code. and a simple Makefile
6 to build them all. i think the tbz2tool.c was the only C program we had
7 before and it was compiled via the ebuild (which we should avoid).
8
9 > 2) We may want to install it at /usr/bin/install-xattr
10 > because I'm sure it will be useful for more than just portage.
11
12 if that's the case, then i don't think it belongs in portage. make it a sep
13 package that portage will just depend on.
14 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] xattr wrapper for install, bug #465000 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>