Sven <sv...@delirium.ch> posted loom.20090513t143352-...@post.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 13 May 2009 14:34:20 +0000:
> Yet meanwhile I'd love to get some feedback on my original proposition: > Is it feasable and acceptable to expand Portage by the possibility to > declare a file shared between slots and only delete it once the last > slot is uninstalled? FWIW, that'd not be a portage issue per se, but an EAPI issue, since it would have to do with the ebuilds and the other PMs (package managers, Gentoo has three, portage, paludis, pkgcore, and anything that an ebuild can depend on must be in an approved EAPI, approval being conditioned on implementation in all three PMs) would need to deal with it also. Granted, whether it can be added to an EAPI spec is to some degree dependent on whether portage (as well as the other PMs) can feasibly support it, but you'd need to go thru the EAPI process to do it, not simply add it to portage. -- 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
