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* general-concepts/use-flags: remove redundant 'die' from the exampleStefan Strogin2019-05-241-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: Grammar in VDB paragraphMichał Górny2019-05-221-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: Explain resolving automagic depsMichał Górny2019-05-221-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | Explain how developers should resolve automagic deps properly (via upstream patch), and how they can easily solve it locally (via cache variables or forcing dep unconditionally). Suggested-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: Also note about flags controlling CFLAGSMichał Górny2019-05-221-0/+36
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: Split out use cases for not using flagsMichał Górny2019-05-221-5/+36
| | | | | | | | Split out the paragraph on not using USE flags for runtime dependencies into a separate section. Include the policy of not using USE flags for small files. Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: Reindent to match devmanual styleMichał Górny2019-05-221-113/+113
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/mirrors: link to the third-party mirror documentation.Michael Orlitzky2019-03-191-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | If you're looking for information on the "mirror://" pseudo-protocol, you might try the page titled "Mirrors". This commit adds a link to that page, pointing to the newly-written third-party mirror documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/licenses: warn about GitHub license guesserMichał Górny2018-12-191-0/+6
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/licenses: Warn about GPL-n+ etc.Michał Górny2018-12-191-0/+28
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/licenses: Determining the licenseMichał Górny2018-12-191-0/+47
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/licenses: Explain which licenses go into LICENSEMichał Górny2018-12-191-0/+20
| | | | | | | Explain which licenses go into LICENSE and which don't Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/licenses: make it clear that multiple can be listedMichał Górny2018-12-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | The previous wording was kinda weird, suggesting the variable is a filename, rather than dep-style. Reword it to make it clear that multiple values can be used. Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
* Remove more versionator referencesBrian Evans2018-10-241-3/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
* overlays: Remove reference to PORTDIR_OVERLAYBrian Evans2018-10-241-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
* Add section about defining "Test Dependencies"Mike Gilbert2018-09-101-0/+38
| | | | Reviewed-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/use-flags: deprecate LINGUAS in favour of L10NMikle Kolyada2018-06-221-3/+3
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* general-concepts/autotools: Add Autotools Mythbuster as a referenceMikle Kolyada2018-06-141-0/+3
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* Replace the references to 'system' with '@system'Göktürk Yüksek2018-04-211-7/+10
| | | | | | Adopt the set notation using the '@' sign when refering to the system set. Also, system is not a target but a set. Therefore replace any references that refers to @system as 'target' with 'set'.
* Convert various 'http://' URIs to 'https://'Göktürk Yüksek2018-04-201-1/+2
| | | | | | | Here's the heuristic for conversion: - If the https substitute is valid, always convert to https - If it's a bogus URI used in an example, convert it to https - If it's a valid URI used in an example with no valid https, leave it alone
* use HTTPS for links to gnu.orgFrancesco Turco2018-04-201-4/+4
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* general-concepts/virtuals: s/clean choice/a clean choice/Göktürk Yüksek2018-02-131-1/+1
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* general-concepts/virtuals: Tips on virtual and subslotsMichał Górny2018-02-131-0/+80
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* general-concepts/virtuals: Explain how keywording works on virtualsMichał Górny2018-02-131-0/+28
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* Change the indentation for ebuild <codesample/> snippets from spaces to tabsGöktürk Yüksek2018-01-035-59/+59
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* general-concepts/news: Bring in line with updated GLEP 42.Ulrich Müller2017-12-221-14/+10
| | | | | Acked-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/641928
* general-concepts/news: Fix grammar.Ulrich Müller2017-12-211-1/+1
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* general-concepts/tree: Move link because around -> it was looking strange.Ulrich Müller2017-11-291-3/+3
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* general-concepts/news: Fix XML, rewrap long lines.Ulrich Müller2017-11-281-16/+43
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* general-concepts/tree: Document current practice for distfile names.Ulrich Müller2017-11-241-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | At the time of writing, all distfiles referenced from the Gentoo repository are using only ASCII alphanumeric plus +-.@[]_~ special characters. If all known overlays are included, characters %&();=? occur in addition. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/638538
* Update links to GLEPs.Ulrich Müller2017-10-134-7/+5
| | | | | | GLEPs have been moved to https://www.gentoo.org/glep/. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/634198
* general-concepts/dependencies: Add a warning on pure DEPEND soft blockersMichał Górny2017-09-251-7/+13
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* general-concepts/dependencies: Explain the meaning of hard blockers in DEP/RDEPMichał Górny2017-09-251-0/+9
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* general-concepts/dependencies: Improve the description of blockersMichał Górny2017-09-251-8/+23
| | | | | | Improve the text describing blockers to clearly explain the difference between soft and hard blockers, and how are they supposed to be used. Emphasize on using in RDEPEND.
* general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: Provide examples for when to revbump or notMichał Górny2017-09-251-7/+44
| | | | Provide a wider set of examples when to revbump or not.
* general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: Provide a 3-step guide for when to revbumpMichał Górny2017-09-251-17/+32
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* general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: Clearly define the purpose of revisionsMichał Górny2017-09-251-0/+14
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* general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: by default -> when empty (more precise)Michał Górny2017-09-251-2/+3
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* Change "atom" to "package dependency specification" throughout.Ulrich Müller2016-12-291-4/+4
| | | | Bug: 603970
* general-concepts/tree: Add mention for metadata directory in gentoo treeWim Muskee2016-11-301-0/+20
| | | | Gentoo-Bug: 572150
* Portage is the package manager. The repository is named gentoo.Alice Ferrazzi2016-11-196-7/+7
| | | | Changed Portage Tree with Gentoo Repository.
* general-concepts/slotting: be more explicit about what an empty slot isGöktürk Yüksek2016-08-051-1/+2
| | | | Reported-By: Amy Winston <amynka@gentoo.org>
* general-concepts/mirrors: remove manual chmod ug+rw on mirrored files #314183Göktürk Yüksek2016-06-161-4/+3
| | | | | | | Per Bug 314183 comment 3, remove the mention of chmod ug+rw on files uploaded to dev.g.o for mirroring purposes. Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/314183
* general-concepts/herds-and-projects: update per GLEP 67 #572144 #549490Göktürk Yüksek2016-05-181-1/+100
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The changes are: - Rename the title to "Projects and Herds" to put the emphasis on projects - Explain projects and subprojects in a new "Projects" section - Add a subsection for starting new projects - Add a subsection for joining/leaving a project - Put a warning label at the beginning of the "Herds" section, declare it obsolete, and preserve it for historical reasons Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572144 Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549490 Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/git-to-rsync: fix a typo: s/epository/repository/Göktürk Yüksek2016-04-291-1/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/tree: remove the reference to the ChangeLog #485314Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-1/+0
| | | | | Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485314 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/git-to-rsync/diagram: update the description for git #558642Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/git-to-rsync/diagram: update the description for git #558642Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/tree: substitute "CVS" with "git" #558642Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-2/+2
| | | | | Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/mirrors: substitute "CVS" with "the git tree" #558642Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
* general-concepts/manifest: drop the use of "CVS keyword expansion" #558642Gokturk Yuksek2016-02-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | With the git migration no CVS keyword expansions are happening. However, Manifest file may still need to be regenerated. Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>