On Monday 10 October 2005 04:00, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 03:19, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple
> > of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine.
>
> Feature enhancements are on hold until the 227 currently open bugs are
> organized properly and the count lessened somewhat. Note, most existing
> feature requests have been marked as LATER so the above number is pretty
> much only real bugs.
>
> > 1- In /etc/make.conf add a new key to FEATURES that would cause portage
> > to cleanup the DISTDIR folder if everything emerges cleanly.
>
> Removing distfiles for packages when they are unmerged/upgraded will be
> added. When removing all distfiles, you'd end up downloading the same file
> several times when there are updates to the revision.
>
Excellent...
> > 2- How about "emerge apps" that would ONLY cover things NOT in "emerge
> > sys"?
>
> This has not been considered, so opening a bug for this would be okay.
> Adding an "all" target is planned, which would cover everything installed
> regardless of presence in system or world. With such a target, changing
> "world" to not automatically include "system" should be fine.
>
Excellent...
> > 3- Make a list of hooks available to hackers, like myself.
>
> This is also planned.
>
Wow!
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> Jason Stubbs
Thanks for the post Jason.
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