On Saturday 25 February 2006 22:29, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> > What about introducing a new variable in the ebuild file: DIST_PREFIX
> > that has as default value ${PN}. This should not break anything for
> > unaware portage versions. For aware portage versions, the files would
> > be retrieved from ${DISTDIR}/${DIST_PREFIX} instead of ${DISTDIR}
>
> That introduces a problem of redundancy. In some cases, more than one
> package will use a given set of sources, and it will need to be fetched
> and stored once for each package. Perhaps defaulting DIST_PREFIX to ""
> and allowing it to be used for workarounds in the odd cases could work.I don't think that there is redundancy often. For some packages there might be, but those could set the value. There are however many packages that come with files like patch.4.2.52.4 (for sys-libs/db-4.2.52). From the name it's impossible to know what it belongs to. And the fact that there is no collision is just by chance, not by name convention. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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