Is it possible to use external (system) svn for 9999-ebuilds?

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Regards,
Konstantin

is there a reason the gentoo installed svn wont work ? gentoo can only
manage its own packages, it knows nothing about other packages, few
exceptions are libc. if you really want there is package.provided


On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:


Is it possible to use external (system) svn for 9999-ebuilds?

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Regards,
Konstantin

> is there a reason the gentoo installed svn wont work ? *

1. Mac OS X 10.5 comes with not-so-ancient SVN
2. SVN is big enough so I expect long compilation
3. I assume SVN is used by portage only as a command-line tool

> gentoo can only
> manage its own packages, it knows nothing about other packages, few
> exceptions are libc. *if you really want there is package.provided

Thanks, I will try

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Regards,
Konstantin

On 16-11-2010 11:59:16 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > is there a reason the gentoo installed svn wont work ? *
>
> 1. Mac OS X 10.5 comes with not-so-ancient SVN

that is defined by time, and won't hold for long

> 2. SVN is big enough so I expect long compilation

many things do, that's Gentoo live

> 3. I assume SVN is used by portage only as a command-line tool

it's actually not used in normal operation by Portage, but it may be
used as library by other consumers.

Fixing that and dependencies is much harder than just compiling a proper
version that we know what it's doing instead of relying upon some
unknown-version unknown-compiled version of a package.


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