Ciaran McCreesh posted on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:50:54 +0100 as excerpted: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:32:41 +0200 justin <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3. >> file capabilities (can this be done with portage) > > It can't. We've had discussions about caps before, and I imagine it > would get into EAPI 5 without objections if you can come up with a spec > that describes how it should work (bear in mind that some of the target > filesystems might not support caps).
Isn't that what portage's xattr USE flag is all about, supporting caps, etc, via xattr? Altho as you said, it does require support on both PORTAGE_TMPDIR and the live filesystem. (I believe portage's install warns if the USE flag is on and either tmpfs or the live filesystem doesn't support it.) But that's a fairly new feature, probably not in stable, yet, and for all I know, 2.2 only. And while I guess a few packages support it via USE=caps, full and proper EAPI support couldn't be a bad thing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
