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Zac Medico wrote: |
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| Honestly I don't care what the existing scheme is. |
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Fair enough, I don't maintain the code or have to deal with the |
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complaints. It seems a waste to abandon an existing scheme though. |
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Particularly since RESTRICT is an odd name for random boolean flags. |
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Something like OPTIONS would be better, but it that can't be |
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added/changed quickly. Is there an urgent pressing need for this? |
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| primaryuri - Fetch from URLs in SRC_URI before GENTOO_MIRRORS. |
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| Looking at the above list I say it's fair game to put just about any |
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| boolean flag in RESTRICT. |
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To me, almost every item in that list has "not", "disable", "restrict" |
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or some other negative in it, which lets it fit into a restriction. |
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Primaryuri is the only one that looks out of place. |
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You did sound up for a name change though, and if nothing else please do |
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change it. Our new users/developers that don't know RESTRICT is seen as |
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a general purpose options flag will not find it intuitive and will |
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definitely wonder what RESTRICT="live" means. Not everybody knows the |
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ebuild format intimately, and allowing people to easily pick up what's |
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going on is important... |
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| That requires an EAPI bump, which also means that it can't be used |
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| in ebuilds with EAPI 0 or 1. The RESTRICT solution is simpler and we |
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| can use it right now in any ebuild. |
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It is simpler, and as I say if there's an urgent need then go for it, |
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but to me it feels like it's bolting on functionality into any space |
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it'll go. Given that some time was spent changing all the "noblah" |
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flags to "blah" to fit the RESTRICT name, it's a little disappointing to |
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consider shoving extra flags in it now it all makes sense. |
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This is a relatively minor point. In the long run, if people don't like |
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it, it'll get QA bugged/ironed out, if they do it'll stay, you just |
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asked for thoughts... 5:) |
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Mike 5:) |
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