Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:57:03
Message-Id: 20040918115649.GA8854@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:46:39AM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > Ok, http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/portage.html contains the following items
3 > as the new features:
4 >
5 > * Rebuilding on USE-flag changes
6 > * GPG verification
7 > * FHS compliance
8 > * Collision protection
9 > * Succesfull Package Merge Verification
10
11 I've gotten good feedback from quite a few people, thank you :)
12
13 I've made it more clear that it's a compile verification instead of a merge
14 verification (for FEATURES="maketest").
15
16 I've also added:
17 - Improved handling of injected packages (through package.provided)
18 - Massive speedups
19 - Improved support for embedded systems (FEATURES="autoconfig")
20
21 The article is still available online at
22 http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/portage.html
23
24 Thanks for the feedback so-far!
25
26 Wkr,
27 Sven Vermeulen
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29
30 --
31 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
32 (oo) Sven Vermeulen
33 (__) http://www.gentoo.org Documentation & PR