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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configure.ac and Makefile.am easy_view ?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:58:47
Message-Id: 55174E3B.8020101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: configure.ac and Makefile.am easy_view ? by James
1 On 03/28/2015 01:17 PM, James wrote:
2 >
3 > Is there a way to includes those files for archiving so something like
4 > elogviewer could make them available systematically? Do you think the
5 > maintainer of elogviewer is open to that sort of request, formally (BGO) or
6 > informally (personal email?). Another more suited tool for extending the
7 > existing functionality to view key files of an ebuild?
8
9 FEATURES="noclean" will leave the entire built source tree intact. It
10 will waste a bunch of space but you'll have a copy of the files you want.
11
12 The package manager is what normally deletes those files, so if you
13 wanted to file a feature request somewhere, it would have to be with
14 portage. IMO I think they'll say no, but you could request something
15 like a CLEAN_MASK variable that allows you to prevent certain files from
16 being cleaned.