Re: [gentoo-dev] pax-utils.eclass: elog -> einfo?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, March 17, 2011 17:59:44 Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:29 -0400
>
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
> > On 03/13/2011 04:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Saturday, March 12, 2011 07:36:35 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
> > >> I wonder why pax-utils.eclass uses elog instead of just einfo. An
> > >>
> > >> example message looks like this:
> > >>  * Fallback PaX marking -m
> > >>  *      out/Release/chrome
> > >>
> > >> IMHO it's not very useful in the elog messages, but maybe there are
> > >> scenarios in which it is useful.
> > >>
> > >> My idea is to just replace all elogs with einfos in
> > >> pax-utils.eclass. What do you think?
> > >
> > > i think it depends on the person.  for people who dont use
> > > grsec/PaX, they probably could care less and never see this
> > > output.  for people who do, they probably do want to see this.
> > >
> > > maybe have it `elog` only when [[ $(uname -r) == *-grsec* ]]
> > > -mike
> >
> > blueness@yellowness ~ $ uname -r
> > 2.6.37-hardened-r5
> >
> > so you need == *-hardened-*
>
> I'd suggest doing something like:
>
> use hardened && elog ...
>
> There's an argument that it's better to make decisions according to
> make.conf settings rather than the host system configuration, not
> least to cater for people doing cross-builds.  Assuming cross builds
> work at all; I've not tried that for a long time.

in general, yes.  but this would have the unpleasant side effect of having 
IUSE=hardened show up for all packages that inherit the eclass.

also, this code is run at the pkg_* stage, so it's not the normal src host 
feature detection.  and we're talking about minor output behavior.
-mike