On 28 March 2012 23:04, Piotr Szymaniak <szar...@grubelek.pl> wrote: > Just use categories from repos? > > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-devel/gcc-1.2.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/glibc-2.3.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/zlib-3.4.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/zomg-soft/zomgawesomesoft-5.3.1.tar.xz > (from zomg repo with custom zomg-soft category ;) > > Btw. what would happen if, ie. mc package - well, two different > packages, one from app-misc, one from sci-libs - but lets say they have > a brand new release 5.0 and there's mc-5.0.tar.bz2 for both of them? >
AAaactually, there's a good way of doing it which could /mostly/ be category based. You could in a future EAPI define a variable, say DISTDIRPREFIX , the value of which would *default* to being $CATEGORY, but could be overridden on a per-package basis if it was deemed nessecary to do so. So perhaps in the case of something big like Spidermonkey, which might need a copy of Xulrunner or firefox's source code , the package developers could set DISTDIRPREFIX to be something like "x-mozilla" and set that same value for xulrunner, firefox, and seamonkey, and then the "right thing" would always just work. And if you *really* wanted to be friendly, you could test after sourcing the ebuild if DISTDIRPREFIX was still $CATEGORY, and if not, create a symlink so you'd have dev-lang/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz -> x-mozilla/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz # spidermonkey net-libs/firefox-4.0.1.source.tar.bz2 -> x-mozilla/firefox-4.0.1.source.tar.bz2 # xulrunner net-libs/xulrunner-2.0-patches-1.8.tar.bz2 -> x-mozilla/xulrunner-2.0-patches-1.8.tar.bz2 # xulrunner www-client/firefox-10.0-patches-0.5.tar.xz -> x-mozilla/firefox-10.0-patches-0.5.tar.xz # seamonkey www-client/firefox-11.0-patches-0.4.tar.xz -> x-mozilla/firefox-11.0-patches-0.4.tar.xz # firefox www-client/firefox-11.0.source.tar.bz2 -> x-mozilla/firefox-11.0.source.tar.bz2 # firefox www-client/seamonkey-2.7.1.source.tar.bz2 -> x-mozilla/seamonkey-2.7.1.source.tar.bz2 # seamonkey www-client/seamonkey-2.7-patches-03.tar.xz -> x-mozilla/seamonkey-2.7-patches-03.tar.xz # seamonkey x-mozilla/firefox-10.0-patches-0.5.tar.xz x-mozilla/firefox-11.0-patches-0.4.tar.xz x-mozilla/firefox-11.0.source.tar.bz2 x-mozilla/firefox-4.0.1.source.tar.bz2 x-mozilla/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz x-mozilla/seamonkey-2.7.1.source.tar.bz2 x-mozilla/seamonkey-2.7-patches-03.tar.xz x-mozilla/xulrunner-2.0-patches-1.8.tar.bz2 -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
