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On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 20:57 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or |
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> > Meson. However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose |
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> > the ability to install Portage as a regular Python package (e.g. inside |
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> > a virtualenv). |
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> What is the use case for doing that? I thought maybe testing, but then you can |
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> run Portage and its unit tests in-place without installing it at all right |
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> now. |
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Using Portage as a library for package inspection, etc. -- i.e. mostly |
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CI purposes. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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