-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would a new tree like he's proposing have to be embedded only?
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:40:11 +0200 | "Tom Cooksey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>>> Any ebuild replacement/enhancement planned to do this? :-) |>> Wouldn't be hard to come up with one... The issue's more finding |>> someone to do a tree. |>> |>> If we're talking embedded, I'd imagine we're talking less than a |>> hundred packages, so it's possibly only a few days work... |> It's the existing tree which I see the real value in. All those |> packages sitting there ready to be compiled. Yes, I could come up with |> a ebuild replacement, but then I'd have to maintain all the packages |> myself, which defeats the point. The only option would be to get the |> community to adopt an ebuild format which is more cross-compile |> friendly. I don't really see that happening. | | Honestly, if you were to come up with a small tree aimed at building | embedded systems, I suspect you'd end up getting quite a bit of | interest from other people. You're not the first to ask these kinds of | questions... | | *shrug* It's a question of how much extra work it would be to start | such a project and see if it attracts enough people to be maintained... | If you or anyone else does go that way, give me a prod regarding design | and package manager things. | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | paludis-user mailing list | [email protected] | http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFILaIdJAyGKGHTxmoRAhEZAJ96he+iiL27YSewb7OC7bHI9DqOPgCdE9+Z urkanorkwCcfCE2QfK1JTyg= =PW+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
