On 22:53 Mon 09 Mar     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> > > * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal,
> > > unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs
> > > to use this.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is
> an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a
> good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be
> ignored silently, it should have to say so.

I like it when unpack ${A} works regardless of what's in SRC_URI, 
especially if it's an uncompressed file rather than an unsupported 
compression format.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com