Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

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Author: Bob Dunlop
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed
On Fri, Jan 15 at 11:40, Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
> John Cooper wrote:
> > * I know Gentoo isn't packaged, but it has its own install procedures
> > like a package.
>
> I really like /etc/portage/package.use as I often find I need an "oddity"
> such as a threaded perl and unlike most other systems gentoo "lets me have it" :-)


I often find myself using the PORTDIR_OVERLAY feature myself.
You can completly overwite the entire configuration for a package yet
remain intergrated with the rest of the system.

-- 
        Bob Dunlop