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". -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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