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Am Montag, 20. März 2017, 09:35:44 CET schrieb Mike Frysinger: |
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> On 16 Mar 2017 10:38, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Convert the usage of eblits in sys-devel/autoconf into an equivalent |
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> > eclass. This makes the ebuilds more readable, more predictable and fixes |
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> > compliance with stricter versions of the package manager (i.e. a future |
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> > release of Portage). |
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> obvious NAK until you sort out the open questions already raised about |
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> the backwards breaking change you're trying to land in PMS. the point |
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> of having EAPI's in the first place is that we don't break them, but |
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> change the behavior across new versions. |
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> your patches aren't fixing actual bugs, just things you "don't like". |
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> -mike |
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So what's so special about your packages that you *need* a hack as ugly as |
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eblits? |
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We killed them with fire in dev-lang/perl and are *very* happy with the |
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result. |
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* the code size decreased a lot |
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* it's actually readable now |
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* and stable things stay stable for sure... |
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After looking through the dev-lang/perl code (which was mostly identical to |
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what is used in autoconf/...) +1 +1 +1 for banning eblits globally. |
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"I like them" is not an argument. |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) |
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