Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: autotools-utils.eclass

[Brian Harring]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:56:05AM +0300, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> case ${EAPI:-0} in
> 	2|3|4) ;;
> 	*) DEPEND="EAPI-TOO-OLD" ;;
> esac
>
> why not:
>
> case ${EAPI:-0} in
> 	0|1) DEPEND="EAPI-TOO-OLD" ;;
> esac

Do not go adding invalid DEPEND like that.  Make the eclass die 
instead.

Seriously, and this is a general rant based on several years of 
people adding stupid shit without considering the fallout:

Whatever great new little trick you can think of for stuff like 
this... it's wrong.  Use the mechanisms that exist.  If policy 
forbids it, fix the policy, don't come up w/ "clever" hacks around 
it.  Fix the core issue instead.

Wouldn't surprise me if portage would accept this and run with it, 
blowing up at emerge time instead.  Pkgcore and paludis however will 
give you the finger *very* quickly since that's not a valid atom.  
Don't piss on our parties w/ 'clever' tricks, do the right thing and 
use a die.

People will move their ass a helluva lot quicker when their ebuild 
breaks than when bones has to go yelling both at the eclass author, 
and the devs in question about missing deps.

Do not add this to the tree.
~harring