Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Specific build permanent environment
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:32:52
Message-Id: 3FD49875.5000808@technaut.darktalker.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Specific build permanent environment by "Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)"
1 Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) wrote:
2 > Hi, first of all, i'd like to say how much i appreciate the goals of
3 > portage-ng's rewrite :)
4 >
5 > That having said, i would like to be able to specify a specific build
6 > environment for some packages, manually modifying the environment for
7 > emerge is just not sufficient.
8 >
9 > May i propose a /etc/portage/portage.d directory, where i could create,
10 > say a /etc/portage/portage.d/net-fs/samba/make.conf file which would
11 > modify the normal build environment.
12 >
13 > for example, my /etc/portage/portage.d/net-fs/samba/make.conf file
14 > would contain :
15 >
16 > USE="-ldap"
17 >
18 > this way i know that if samba gets upgraded, i won't have to recompile
19 > it myself with USE="-samba" emerge ... samba.
20
21 I believe there will be support for something like this is portage-2.0.50. You will be
22 able to specify something like USE="X gtk gtk2 perl ldap (net-fs/samba -ldap)". I can't
23 remember if that is the correct syntax, but you get the point.
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