Re: The build system (and install layout) of Portage

James Le Cuirot <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:57:43 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
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On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or
> Meson.  However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose
> the ability to install Portage as a regular Python package (e.g. inside
> a virtualenv).

What is the use case for doing that? I thought maybe testing, but then you can
run Portage and its unit tests in-place without installing it at all right
now.

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