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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:16:05
Message-Id: 45BC68E9.9010809@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass by Alec Warner
1 Alec Warner napsal(a):
2 > Jakub Moc wrote:
3 >> Danny van Dyk napsal(a):
4 >>> which breaks the metadata cache. Any objections to change it
5 >>> to
6 >>>
7 >>> SLOT=0
8 >> As noted on the relevant bug [1], the eclass is a complete no-op and
9 >> nothing can be installed using this eclass (has been so for quite some
10 >> time). Fixing it doesn't make sense, making it dummy or even removing it
11 >> (plus the unusable single ebuild which inherits it) does.
12 >>
13 >>
14 >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162960
15 >>
16 >
17 > And we already told you, removing it isn't a good solution (even if it
18 > technically works within the bounds of the current api). The bug is
19 > that the SLOT invalidates cache entries and it's trivial to fix.
20
21 The eclass is not trivial to fix, to be fixed, this eclass would require
22 a complete rewrite from scratch. There's no usable ebuild for this
23 eclass and the eclass is completely moot. Still fail to see what are you
24 trying to fix as opposed to removing a broken non-functional cruft from
25 the tree.
26
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30
31 Jakub Moc
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Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>