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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:18:05
Message-Id: 1340453773.5979.66.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 12:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
2 > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:52:24 +0200
3 > Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
4 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > > > bring this to the point where we can say something other than
6 > > > "huh?".
7 > >
8 > > You can accelerate by making one guess about each thing on the list
9 > > and asking for confirmation of your guess.
10 > >
11 > > It sounds silly, but I realized that this actually happens all the
12 > > time offline - at least to me. I interpret, ask if I got it right,
13 > > then move on. It's pretty efficient, but requires both sender and
14 > > receiver wanting successful transmission.
15 >
16 > The issue is not that we don't understand the list. The issue is that
17 > we don't understand the problem (beyond superficially), how the
18 > proposed solution works from an ebuild perspective, whether the
19 > solution solves the problem, or how it all fits together. Most of the
20 > stuff on the list is irrelevant from a design perspective. It's not
21 > that the list is hard to understand, it's that understanding the
22 > problem and solution requires completely different material.
23 >
24 > To take one example, figuring out exactly which variables get mangled
25 > is an unimportant detail at this stage (and likely we'll want to
26 > offload it to profiles, not hard-code it in PMS) and not a central part
27 > of the proposal.
28 >
29 > What we need is a GLEP, describing it in high level terms with a
30 > discussion upon how it impacts users and ebuild developers, and a PMS
31 > patch, highlighting what's to be changed in specific technical terms.
32 >
33
34 What we *also* need is to document this requirements to let people
35 present that work directly instead of losing days figuring out what is
36 needed or what not

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