Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM

[Arthur Zamarin]

On 16/07/2022 20.51, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 02:58:04PM +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote:
>> On 16.7.2022 14.24, Florian Schmaus wrote:
>>>
>>
>> ++ this sounds most sensible. This is also how I've understood your
>> proposal.
>
> Remember that with EGO_SUM all of the bloated manifests and ebuilds are
> on every user's system.
>
> I added mgorny as a cc to this message because he made it pretty clear
> at some point in the previous discussion that the size of these ebuilds
> and manifests is unacceptable.
>
> William

I want to give another option. Both ways are allowed by eclass, but by
QA policy (or some other decision), it is prohibited to use EGO_SUM in
main ::gentoo tree.

As a result, overlays and ::guru can use the EGO_SUM or dist distfile
(remember, they don't have access to hosting on dev.g.o).

-- 
Arthur Zamarin
arthurzam@g.o
Gentoo Linux developer (Python, Arch Teams, pkgcore stack, GURU)