On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ciaran.mccreesh@...">ciaran.mccreesh@...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:49:16 +0100<br>
Tiziano Müller &lt;<a href="mailto:dev-zero@g.o">dev-zero@g.o</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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First up, un-optionaling some optional things. No impact for developers:<br>
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* PROPERTIES must be cached properly (it&#39;s optional in current EAPIs)</blockquote><div><br>+1 from  me <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* DEFINED_PHASES must be supported (ditto)</blockquote><div> </div><div>+1 from me <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Next, some probably easy but long standing features:<br>
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* src_test run unless RESTRICTed or explicitly disabled by the user (bug<br>
  184812)</blockquote><div><br>I&#39;d love to but please look at the most recent comment I&#39;ve made on the bug <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* have econf run ./configure with --disable-dependency-tracking and<br>
  --enable-fast-install (bug 211529)</blockquote><div><br>+1 from me. Did we ever test autoconf 2.13 based stuff? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* Limit values in $USE to ones in $IUSE (bug 176467). The existing<br>
  behaviour&#39;s majorly annoying; time for the package manager to start<br>
  enforcing things strictly.</blockquote><div><br>definitely +1 from me. I&#39;ve been trying to put kernel_linux and such in my ebuilds already to improve this.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Some things we should probably sort out:<br>
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* The list of extensions for unpack probably needs a couple of new<br>
  things.</blockquote><div><br>We also need a way for the actual program being used for the unpack to be added to DEPEND. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* Provide ebuilds a way to differentiate between updates and removals<br>
  (bug 205557), since the way devmanual says to do it got broken by a<br>
  non-EAPIed change. This one&#39;s slightly trickier than initially<br>
  apparent, because a solution&#39;s needed for the weird cases. One<br>
  example is if you have foo-1:1 and foo-2:2 installed, and you&#39;re<br>
  installing foo-2:1. In this case, it&#39;s both a reinstall and an<br>
  upgrade. One possibility is a REPLACING_VERSIONS variable that<br>
  contains a list of all versions being replaced, along with a<br>
  REPLACED_BY_VERSION variable for the pre/postrm part.</blockquote><div><br>+1 from me <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Not sure if these can go in in time for Portage or not:<br>
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* Utility commands, even the ones that aren&#39;t functions, should die. To<br>
  get a non-die version, prefix the command with nonfatal (e.g.<br>
  &#39;nonfatal dodoc README&#39;, which just returns non-zero on failure<br>
  rather than splatting).</blockquote><div><br>+1 from me <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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* Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, unless<br>
  --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs to use<br>
  this.</blockquote><div><br>+1 from me <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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* pkg_info should work on things that aren&#39;t installed, as well as<br>
  things that are.</blockquote><div><br>We&#39;d need to properly educate people about this because I&#39;m pretty sure a bunch of pkg_info()&#39;s require the actual package to be installed currently. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font color="#888888">Ciaran McCreesh<br>
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