Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

[Marco Leise]

Am Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:22:34 +0100
schrieb "Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv>:

> `PKGBUILD` in Arch Linux is simply a standard package building 
> script, essentially a bash script with metadata. It is not a 
> package on its own, in is used to create ones. It is convenient 
> for maintenance to generate packages with a shared/related built 
> process from a single PKGBUILD. This, for example, is the one for 
> dmd stack : 
> https://github.com/Dicebot/Arch-PKGBUILDs/blob/master/dmd/PKGBUILD

That looks very similar to an ebuild, with the major
difference that a PKGBUILD can define multiple packages and
an ebuild has USE flags I think.
 
> If such package is a stand-alone application and does not seem to 
> be maintained for some time it can be adjusted to use DVM to 
> retrieve older version specifically to build itself. Not very 
> convenient, but won't at least pollute the system with dozens of 
> different compiler/phobos versions.

We will see how bad it becomes, hehe. I hope that it will
mostly be the last to versions of a compiler and one older
version for the one program you happen to use that wasn't
updated for a while.

-- 
Marco