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| From: | James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The build system (and install layout) of Portage | ||
| Date: | Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:58:00 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1cf8a0bd177d11331df351bc23e6165bf9c2a0ec.camel@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-portage-dev] The build system (and install layout) of Portage by "Michał Górny" |
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| 1 | On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 2 | > An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or |
| 3 | > Meson. However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose |
| 4 | > the ability to install Portage as a regular Python package (e.g. inside |
| 5 | > a virtualenv). |
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| 7 | What is the use case for doing that? I thought maybe testing, but then you can |
| 8 | run Portage and its unit tests in-place without installing it at all right |
| 9 | now. |
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| Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The build system (and install layout) of Portage | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> |