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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:23:50
Message-Id: 20120620071909.6764092b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5) by Thomas Sachau
1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:07:01 +0200
2 Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
3 > Do you prefer having everything hardcoded in PMS or can you accept
4 > outsourcing bigger code pieces into some sort of eclass (i am thinking
5 > about some external code base, which can be duplicated by the package
6 > manager with internal code, but has to be used, if the external eclass
7 > has a newer version/revision then the duplicated internal code)?
8
9 The package manager mustn't require any particular eclass to be
10 present, and there mustn't be duplication between eclasses and the
11 package manager.
12
13 > I am especially thinking about the setup of the environment and the
14 > code details for the wrappers for binaries and headers, hardcoding
15 > those details into PMS makes it hard to change/fix issues later on.
16
17 Sounds like you haven't really got a clean design then.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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