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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:46:35 -0800 |
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Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:17:12 +0100 |
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> > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Putting a tag in the file name or at the to of the file as comment |
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> >> (maybe using a #! line) is the same ... |
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> > * It's a format restriction. Some formats have to start with |
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> > something that's not #!. |
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> Who cares? Gentoo uses the ebuild/bash-with-shebang format. If you're |
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> trying to shove in something outside of that, that would be a package |
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> manager-specific format. Like XML-stuff (that can't include the |
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> shebang or EAPI="foo" at the top) specifically for, say, Paludis. |
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And that's the kind of thinking that landed Gentoo in the "unable to |
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add new features" camp for several years. |
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> If it's package manager-specific, then it doesn't belong in the main |
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> tree, as you stated. Would that include trying to push in the proposed |
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> suffix changes? |
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Uh, no. It's a GLEP so that everyone can do it. |
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> If they have uses outside of it, then consider supporting it *only |
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> in that package manager*, rather than trying to force it on what is |
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> largely an unreceptive Gentoo group. |
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Paludis has it already for other trees. We're trying to get Gentoo, and |
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all ebuild-using package managers, to start using it because it's a good |
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solution and solves several problems that Gentoo has currently. |
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> Near as I can tell, it's only the Paludis folks that are interested |
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> in pushing this GLEP through. |
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Have you tried asking the Portage developer? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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