Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte <kioshen@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:29:06
Message-Id: 4a64cf400511170528i56b17ceck31f9af99f26019c8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage by Zac Medico
1 On 11/17/05, Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > So, basically, you want to have multiple directories that the "traditional" /etc/portage inherits from. This would provide a way to separate local profile settings into groups and organize them (more effectively than the current use of commented blocks allows).
3 >
4 > Zac
5
6 I would really love a feature like this to be implemented since it
7 would allow a better organisation for pulling updates for servers. For
8 instance, it would ease the use of a centralised repository for
9 pulling fex a core package.use and more specific ones for servers that
10 need a special touch. Right now, it's kind of a pain to manage this
11 for a bunch of machines.
12
13 Just my 2c from a lurker ...
14
15 Jean-Francois
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