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Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 23:48 +0200, Jeroen Roovers a écrit : |
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>> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:13 +0200 |
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>> Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> We are working on a proper explanation targetted to devs of this. I'm |
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>>> sorry for the inconvenience caused. |
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>> How large of a change to the tree will this involve? Is it a small |
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>> number of packages that need to be fixed through the ebuilds right now? |
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>> will that number grow? Will you notify package maintainers of these |
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>> changes? |
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> Apparently not, it's not that the change is complicated but I (and the |
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> rest of the gnome herd) would rather have an upfront information about |
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> any kind of changes to our ebuilds than discovering these through |
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> gentoo-commits... |
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Jeroen / Gilles : Coming soon. The internal draft was just prepared but |
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Fabian will be sending it. |
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>>> For the moment you can find our own documentation here: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/techdocs.xml |
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>> Where did you document D -> ED? Can you briefly describe what it does? |
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See the section "The variables ED and EROOT" on that link. I don't want |
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to open it up for discussion on this thread though. |
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> I'd also like to know why this cannot be handled by the usual D with |
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> package manager support, this would save a lot of changes to ebuilds |
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> (like the python abi stuff that still has no documentation afaik). |
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> I sincerely want to see progress in the way we handle prefix, python |
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> abis and all the cool stuff that is still in preparation, but let's do |
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> it in a way to makes every dev aware of it (sending a mail to |
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> gentoo-dev-announce for example), thanks. |
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Thanks for your support on behalf of the Prefix team, |
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-Jeremy |