Glenn McGrath wrote: > "Instead of the developers learning to treat certain versions as separate > packages, the developers taught Portage how to handle and maintain several > versions of the same package though the use of SLOTs." > > It goes on to explain further with an example, basically they have an > extra field to differentiate between packages with the same name. rpm does this (using the version as the extra field) and it is a real PITA. > Obviously it would be rediculous to try and formally distribute binary > packages with many different compile options, but we could still add extra > features to our source packages and leave it upto our enlightened users > wether they use the generic binary distributed by debian or stray just a > little from the path and customise the binary for there situation (within > the limits as dictated by the packager). Yep. It requires modifying every package eventually however. See the DEB_BUILD_OPTS stuff and imagine it extended; DEB_BUILD_OPTS=strip,no-gnome,whatever. -- see shy jo
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