On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:43, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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?
The files have the same names across multiple games. It would end up being a maintenance nightmare. Simply allowing portage to not install that package during an upgrade would be a much cleaner approach IMO than attempting to store modified data in distfiles. -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a penguin?
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