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James Harlow wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, I just thought I'd mention that I'm going to be doing the |
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> collation of the portage-ng suggestions. |
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Current ebuilds are resonably modular in that you can often simply |
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rename foo-1.0.ebuild to foo-1.1.ebuild to support a new version of the |
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package. But this is really code reuse by copy/paste. |
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Now there is the eclass feature for code reuse between many packages but |
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I'd think that a more common oppurtunity for code reuse would be within |
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a package between versions. |
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I think this could save a good amount of bandwidth/disk for the rsync |
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mirrors and in the user's portage tree. |
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Sandy McArthur |
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