Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng suggestions collection - improved ebuild code reuse

[Sandy McArthur]

James Harlow wrote:
> Hi everyone, I just thought I'd mention that I'm going to be doing the
> collation of the portage-ng suggestions.

Current ebuilds are resonably modular in that you can often simply 
rename foo-1.0.ebuild to foo-1.1.ebuild to support a new version of the 
package. But this is really code reuse by copy/paste.

Now there is the eclass feature for code reuse between many packages but 
I'd think that a more common oppurtunity for code reuse would be within 
a package between versions.

I think this could save a good amount of bandwidth/disk for the rsync 
mirrors and in the user's portage tree.

Sandy McArthur


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