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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform
From:       "Malte S. Stretz" <msquadrat.nospamplease () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-04-17 16:24:56
Message-ID: 200504171825.01143 () malte ! stretz ! eu ! org
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On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:03 CET Daniel Drake wrote:
> Robert Paskowitz wrote:
>[...]
> > Having portage take your own tree from a particular user's
> > home directory on the other hand seems like a bit of a stretch, and no
> > necessarily all that useful.
>
> I would find this useful, but perhaps the things I'm thinking of are just
> suited to my style of working rather than a general development scenario.

I don't think so;  from time to time when I hacked on KDE or SpamAssassin, I 
thought a feature like the ones you described (ie. treat the ebuilds as 
mere recipes to build some codebase) would be very cool.

Cheers,
Malte

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