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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Graham Murray wrote: |
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> However it should be possible to know all of files that the package |
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> may install. |
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You would have to write a utility that looked at ALL the possible USE |
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flags a package could make use of and build a tree that was stored in a |
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database (not to mention, you would have to actually run the build process |
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to get the list of files to populate the database for EACH combination |
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of USE flags!). |
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Not exactly a trivial undertaking and the resulting database would be very |
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big. |
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Binary distributions can do this because they usually dont allow any |
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customization (i.e. there is just ONE package for say, Pine, usually) and |
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since its built already they can easily create populate a database. |
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