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Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>: |
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>> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler |
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>> for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file |
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>> name. |
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> One needs exceptions for all kind of systems, for example I had to |
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> workaround Trac which adds ?format=raw to a tarball URI. There seems |
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> to be a solution in Trac as the guys from fedarahosted fixed the two I |
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> needed (tmpwatch, mlocate). So the -> operator is quite useful and I |
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> agree with David that the functionality is doubled. |
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Clearly src-uri transformation is useful. Others have given examples of how |
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it would be useful to an eclass. Irrespective of how the actual transform |
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is done in the ;sf=tbz2 case, both _are_ valid use-cases. |
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As such I don't see any reason not to put it in the EAPI. Future extensions |
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can be trialled in eutils, and these can both be allowed syntax for other |
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package managers to comply with (one implementation has already been given) |
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and ebuild devs to feel comfortable using in the Gentoo tree. Why slow the |
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innovation down? It's good enough for use as-is. |
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