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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:47:55PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into |
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> mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent. the first step |
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> is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated |
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> eclass. this makes it trivial for people externally to override the |
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> functionality and hook into whatever craziness they want. |
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> eutils.eclass will inherit this new eclass directly (for the foreseeable |
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> future), so there's no need for tree-wide update bonanzas. |
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Whatever the eclass name, the API it exports should be controlled |
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carefully so that when g27 lands, we can just swap the functionality |
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directly in- just have the eclass watch for a magic value |
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Either way, sounds good. |
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~brian |