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hi, |
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> Do you want portage to import data from other package managers |
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> databases, or is you goal to be able to install things by hand and then |
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> have the installed files be handled by portage? |
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importing data from other package managers may be considered at higher |
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stages, but i am focussing on packages that werent installed by |
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Portage. A Package Manager must keep all the packages in it's database |
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regardless if it was installed by the package manager or not. But i |
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dont think this has been implemented yet. In portage we have the |
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option of making binaries using "quickpkg" command, this is done after |
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installing and it searches it's database (hope so am correct) for the |
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files which depends on the package and creates a "tar.bz2" file. now |
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why cant we apply this technique to track whether the package is |
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already installed in our system not through portage and inject into |
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the database??........ |
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with regards, |
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C.C.Chakkaradeep |
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