Sven wrote:
> Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva <at> gentoo.org> writes:
>>>> so this wrapper could be installed in a separate eselect sort of
>>>> package ?
>>> How exactly can this be done? If a gem creates five executables, would  
>>> this mean that this gem comes in six ebuilds?
>> well given the next answer, it sounds like that's what I'm proposing.
>> I release this might create a packaging overhead.
> 
> I'll check the docs to learn about how this could be done.
> 
> Yet meanwhile I'd love to get some feedback on my original proposition: Is it
> feasable and acceptable to expand Portage by the possibility to declare a file
> shared between slots and only delete it once the last slot is uninstalled?
> 
> Thanks for some feedback on this!   
> 
> -sven
> 
> 

This can also be accomplish by a shared dependency package so is there a
particular benefit for extending EAPI to support this?

Regards,
Petteri



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