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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:57:34
Message-Id: 48957310.2050606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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4 Duncan wrote:
5 > "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com> posted
6 > 8b4c83ad0808021707m52858ddfrd503a419ea8e2ee1@××××××××××.com, excerpted
7 > below, on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:37:10 +0530:
8 >
9 >> How about we just skip the reversed-boolean-usage/it's-a-long-name
10 >> confusion/argument and just call it RESTRICT=tarballs ?
11 >>
12 >> I know not all distfiles are tarballs, but it gets the message across
13 >> far better than "constant-sources" IMO :o)
14 >
15 > +1
16 >
17 > The simplicity of "live" with the negative connotation of restrict, seems
18 > to kill both those issues with a single stone. =8^)
19 >
20 > RESTRICT=tarballs works for me!
21 >
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23 I don't like RESTRICT=tarballs because I don't think it's clear
24 enough. I think we should go with RESTRICT="live-sources". Maybe it
25 doesn't fit your convention, I'm pretty sure we already have other
26 RESTRICT flags that don't fit your convention. How about
27 "primaryuri", for example?
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29 Zac
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