Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:55 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
>> While it is possible to copy the contents of, for example, the three
>> UT2003 CDs to a single directory, and specify this as the CD-ROM path
>> to the ebuild, the lack of package-specific portage configuration files
>> makes this process effectively interactive (since a single environment
>> variable is used to specify the CD-ROM path for all game-related
>> ebuilds).
> Why not look in distfiles for the files you need before even checking the 
> variable's path?

UT2003, for example, requires a large number of files, in a specific
directory hierarchy, that do not have unique names.  If they were to be
put in distfiles, it would be necessary, at least, to put them in a
subdirectory of distfiles, like ut2003, and such a system is not
yet standardized.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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