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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:40:08
Message-Id: 200510102134.30839.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again by Jason Stubbs
1 On Monday 10 October 2005 04:00, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Monday 10 October 2005 03:19, Jerry McBride wrote:
3 > > I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple
4 > > of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine.
5 >
6 > Feature enhancements are on hold until the 227 currently open bugs are
7 > organized properly and the count lessened somewhat. Note, most existing
8 > feature requests have been marked as LATER so the above number is pretty
9 > much only real bugs.
10 >
11 > > 1- In /etc/make.conf add a new key to FEATURES that would cause portage
12 > > to cleanup the DISTDIR folder if everything emerges cleanly.
13 >
14 > Removing distfiles for packages when they are unmerged/upgraded will be
15 > added. When removing all distfiles, you'd end up downloading the same file
16 > several times when there are updates to the revision.
17 >
18
19 Excellent...
20
21
22 > > 2- How about "emerge apps" that would ONLY cover things NOT in "emerge
23 > > sys"?
24 >
25 > This has not been considered, so opening a bug for this would be okay.
26 > Adding an "all" target is planned, which would cover everything installed
27 > regardless of presence in system or world. With such a target, changing
28 > "world" to not automatically include "system" should be fine.
29 >
30
31 Excellent...
32
33
34 > > 3- Make a list of hooks available to hackers, like myself.
35 >
36 > This is also planned.
37 >
38
39 Wow!
40
41 > --
42 > Jason Stubbs
43
44 Thanks for the post Jason.
45
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