[GLLUG] Gentoo

Charles Ulrich charles at idealso.com
Tue Mar 14 14:55:58 EST 2006


Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
> You assume I'm good at writing ebuilds, which is a bad assumption :), 

Well if you're writing or maintaining portage documentation, you 
probably have a leg up on the rest of us. :P

> but if people are interested I can give an overview sometime.  The 
> docs...pretty much it's best to look at 
> /usr/portage/profiles/skel.ebuild and kinda play with it a bit.  There 
> are some very impotant concepts that the docs don't cover well, 
> specifically how eclasses work and how the cache works that a lot of new 
> ebuild writers mess up the first couple of times.
> 
> The question then would be, when is this happening?

Whichever Thursday evening works best for you would work great for us.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com



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