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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS ebuild's and Portage possibilities
From:       James M Long <jlong () pop ! fedworld ! gov>
Date:       2001-10-28 4:46:01
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I for one have been thinking about that very thing and have been trying to get a \
better understanding of the ebuild/Portage system as it is now. The CVS software idea \
is a good one to try, but maybe it can be done with incoming, like other software \
that is normally not ready for prime time.(at least in Gentoo).   Specifically for \
e17... this will be a rather large project in itself, since the specs, libs and even \
apps seem to be in constant flux. I think it would be interesting to see if the \
smaller apps can be maintained with their releases, I am going to try to write the \
ebuilds necessary to do Entice.. Rasterman's newest image viewer, this will use alot \
of the base libs and apps from e17. Maybe it is something that can be built upon. \
Eventually I see that e17 will have to be looked at like KDE or GNOME. Anyway, I \
think I need to get some sleep... rambling now :)

James... 

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:55:49 +0800
Joshua Pierre <joshua@swool.com> wrote:

> Afternoon Gents,
> 
> Last night I was sitting on IRC and conversing with pekdon in #gentoo about e17 \
> (Enlightenment DR 0.17) and the possibility of having compatable ebuilds that work \
> for software in development using CVS. 
> We came to the conclusion that we could have a directory in Portage called cvs \
> which is masked by default to prevent people not familiar with cvs software from \
> accidently downloading it. We would also not provide support due to the nature of \
> the software and we could enter disclaimers on the ebuild asking for y/n input. 
> Please let me know if this is do-able as I would really like to see this happen so \
> we can still maintain a clean system with up to date software. 
> Regards,
> 
> Joshua 
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James M Long				jlong@fedworld.gov
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