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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how CVS ebuilds are managed
From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2003-04-30 1:44:21
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Robert Thomas <rwt@cc.gatech.edu> writes:
> Instead of having a separate package for a cvs version of a package,
> why not consider the cvs version to be the latest version of a
> package, but always marked unstable? Since the cvs version of a
> package usually overwrites the existing version, the old version
> should be automagically unmerged. For example, in the case of gaim and
> gaim-cvs, if the cvs version of gaim is installed, the stable version
> should be unmerged as if it was an old version of the package. Perhaps
> there is another way to manage this.
> In the case of binary packages (like openoffice-bin), they should also
> be considered to be the same package, but still kept separate in some
> way.
> Perhaps another USE flag?
> # USE="bin" emerge openoffice
>
> Or maybe cvs could be a new keyword:
> # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="cvs" emerge gaim
>
> Ok, I really am talking out of the wrong orifice here, and I know that
> these ideas are probably a misuse of USE flags and KEYWORDS. I would
> just like to know if something like this could work (not necessarily
> the way I've described it, perhaps a different extention to the
> version calculating routine altogether), or if there is a reason these
> packages are managed the way they are (by "these" I mean all packages
> ending in "-bin" or "-cvs").
From a developer's standpoint, having one ebuild for both release and
CVS versions would usually clutter the ebuild substantially. At least
I *know* this would be the case with the emacs and emacs-cvs ebuilds.
Secondly, there's no reason why a CVS ebuild should override the
release version you might already have installed. There just happens
to be no policy (afaik) on this particular matter. Technically, I
think its the way to go (ie. simultaneous version).
Matt
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