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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:43 +0100 |
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Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> wrote: |
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> My current idea is to draw up a formal specification of what ebuilds |
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> are allowed to do, and what to assume about the environment in which |
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> they run, as well as defining the formats of everything under |
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> profiles/, metadata.xml files, and other auxiliary information in the |
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> tree. I would envision the first version of this document to more or |
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> less codify existing practise, perhaps excluding some dubious tricks |
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> that are known to break in some cases. Generally, it should be |
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> possible to make the tree conform to the first version of the |
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> specification by changes no more significant than currently have QA |
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> bugs filed for them. |
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Actually for the last two weeks or so (or whenever that pkgmanager |
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compat/transition glep was brought up) I was considering creating a new |
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"espec" project for that. This is beyond the scope of a single document |
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IMO and a separate project for it would help a bit to keep it |
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independent from existing implementations. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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