On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:11PM -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Roger wrote: > > >I'm using dwm-5.9. I'd love to get a dwm-9999.ebuild into Gentoo, > >but some hate cvs/svn/git ebuilds and I have a tough time getting > >them into Gentoo. > > It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have an ebuild in the first > place for a piece of software that requires you to alter its source > in order to configure it.
The Gentoo ebuild alows people to supply their own config.h. It installs the build systemwide, though. Also it doesn't support user patches, I think. I haven't seen it in a while. -- Petr > > Depending on what patches (if any) you apply, dwm consists of two > source files (on the non-draw.c branch). Clone the hg sources, > compile it, copy `dwm` into ~/bin, and be happier not fighting with > an ebuild and/or bureaucracy. > > If you really want an ebuild for it, just create it yourself in a > local repository. > > -- > Best, > Ben >
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