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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:03:37
Message-Id: 7a712422-82e6-587a-baf8-d9792bff081d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass by "Manuel Rüger"
1 On 11/23/2016 12:44 AM, Manuel Rüger wrote:
2 > My only concerns right now are:
3 > Where to store those ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_user and ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_group?
4 > One solution could be to have another eclass named userkit-data.eclass,
5 > which is empty by default and needs to be forked to an overlay and then
6 > use the eclass-override setting in repos.conf. Unfortunately this will
7 > cause a lot of md5-cache rewrites.
8 > Another solution would be portage/package.env or portage/env.
9
10 Just allow for people do define bashrc functions that override the
11 eclass behavior, and they'll have the flexibility to implement anything
12 they want, without having to override eclasses.
13 --
14 Thanks,
15 Zac