On 5/30/08, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008 14:53:33 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I don't understand why paludis provides the dotar+* as separate > > files, as they are all the same... they can be symbolic links to one > > file. > > > Because autotools is a heap of shit and tries very hard to stop you > from using symlinks because they're 'unportable', and because Portage > is a heap of shit and can't handle hardlinks...
I had never any problems in providing symlinks to users using autotools when I need. Oh... I see what you are doing... you provide all the exact files in the source tarball! There is no reason to distribute only one, and create links using install-hook. > > 2. Also it is not clear to me why local syncer cannot be placed > > in /etc/paludis, or at least at /usr/local/, I may miss something, > > but I did not find any configuration location to specify this path. > > > /usr/share/paludis/syncers/ Users should modify /etc or /usr/local/, nothing in /usr, which is controlled by package management. Please consider adding something like PALUDIS_XXX_PATH to enable users to specify where they like hooks to be searched. Alon. _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
