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Torsten Veller wrote: |
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> * Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>: |
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>> Technical Issues: |
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>> - Prepalldocs |
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>> Should the 'prepalldocs' be allowed in current EAPIs? |
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>> Conclusion: |
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>> Prepalldocs is banned in current EAPIs(0,1,2). It should be |
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>> removed from ebuilds. Petteri Räty(Betelgeuse) will make QA |
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>> checks for repoman. |
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> You only did half of your job. |
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> Do we want some docs being compressed, others not? |
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> Do we want to have compressed docs at all? |
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> What do you expect from maintainers now? |
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> To me it means: Instead of using prepalldocs I will move the docdir to |
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> a temporary place and dodoc every file back to docdir. Insane. |
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> Maybe I add a function named prepalldocs to the ebuilds that does the job. |
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> Thanks. |
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Please read the logs. prepalldocs has no clearly defined behavior so it |
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should not be used by ebuilds. Maintainers should use the public APIs |
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available to them. If they have a justified need beyond those, they |
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should open a request for adding needed things to the next EAPI. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |