[gentoo-dev] Re: Remaining PMS todo list etc

[Christian Faulhammer]

Hi,

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:52:40 +0100
> Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o> wrote:
> > if has userpriv ${FEATURES} && ! has usersandbox ${FEATURES};then
> > 	make check-local || die "test suite failed"
> > else
> > 	ewarn "Activate FEATURES=userpriv and deactivate \
> > 		FEATURES=usersandbox to run testsuite."
> > fi
> >
> > ^ That's mlocate, mysql also tests for FEATURES.
>
> Yeah, and that's a strong case for why we don't want FEATURES used in
> ebuilds -- the ebuild is copying package manager internal logic that
> has changed in the past and may well change in the future.

 Great, I accept that it is wrong, but can you tell me how to actually
rewrite it?  Test for capabilities (read/write) on files or is there a
sane way to tell?

V-Li

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