Hello I was aware that the alternative package managers provide hooks for some time now, but only found out recently that portage also has this feature. Unfortunately I was not able to find any documentation about it. I found some information related to hooks in portage on this list and elsewhere but all of those sources assumed that the reader already knows the basics.
So what I am looking for is a tutorial along the lines "howto write you first portage hook function". Of course a more in-depth description would also be welcome. If something like this already exists I apologize for not searching enough, and kindly ask you to point you to the location. The earlies post about hooks on this list seam to be from 2005, so I was a bit surprised I could not find any documentation about them. In my opinion this should be documented in the handbook. I can only assume that either no one found the time to write it or that hooks are intentionally not documented to prevent users from messing things up and then filling untraceable bug reports. So if later were the case I would still be very thankful if you could answer me in private, even though I think this should be documented in public. --Jonas -- gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
