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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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>>> I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples |
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>>> and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the |
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>>> Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package |
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>>> before putting it in the official tree. There are just some pieces |
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>>> of software that I want that are not even in the testing tree. |
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>> The devmanual is a good place to start. If you use IRC then |
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>> #gentoo-dev-help at freenode is a good place to get more help... |
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> Also, search Bugzilla and the forums, someone may have already created |
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> ebuilds for these programs. |
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Also look at ebuilds for similar programs. Write an ebuild, its not that |
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difficult in a simple case. |
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With an ebuild, it is much easier to uninstall and upgrade packages. |
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