On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:04:58 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Said spec covers profiles also; mentioning at least the existance of 
| the misc STAGE* settings isn't a horrible idea, even if not going
| into detail- anyone digging through the profiles will see them, and
| likely wonder why they're there, and why quite a few profiles specify
| an extra set of use lists.

Anything about STAGE* will be "package manager specific". The whole
concept of stages is basically a workaround for Portage limitations.

| While writing the sucker out, I'd expect you'll come across things 
| where gentoo has a specific way of doing it, which isn't required by 
| the manager.  The suggestion would be to track that somehow, or look 
| at mangling the devmanual so that it's just diffs against the spec.

The devmanual and PMS are two entirely different things. Think of the
devmanual as "The C++ Programming Language" plus "The C++ Standard
Library" and PMS as "ISO/IEC 14882:2003".

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Ciaran McCreesh
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