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Hello, developers. |
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The directory conventions in PMS are confusing developers for a long |
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time. Long story short, D, ED, ROOT and EROOT are supposed to contain |
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a trailing slash while remaining directory variables don't. This often |
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confuses developers and brings repeating mistakes resulting in double |
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slashes in paths. |
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For example, developers often write '${D}/usr/bin/foo', while they |
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should '${D}usr/bin/foo'. Of course, this gets more complicated with |
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every variable added. For example, if you were to reference |
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bashcompdir, you'd have to use pattern substitution to actually remove |
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double slashes, e.g. '${D%/}$(get_bashcompdir)'. |
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More than a year ago, I've suggested that we unify the convention for |
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directories and require all of them not to contain a trailing slash |
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[1]. The bug contains all the details, including statistics (year old |
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but still) and repoman check suggestions. |
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I would like to suggest finally doing the change for the sake of |
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improved consistency. EAPI 6 is a great opportunity to clean up some of |
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the historical mess, and make ebuild writing have one pitfall less. |
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What do you think? |
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[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465772 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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