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Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> POSIX Shell compliance |
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>> So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon bash anyway (and can't |
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>> easily be made not to), so even if developers would accept having to |
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>> rewrite all their eclasses, it still wouldn't remove the dep. |
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> Lets address POSIX compliance in the ebuilds first. Then we can deal |
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> with the package managers. |
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Additionally, this is extremely unlikely because a number of developers |
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insist on bash, to the extent that it would likely split gentoo in half |
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if this were to be forced. It wouldn't pass council. It's unlikely to |
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even /get/ to council. |
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Openrc could move to POSIX shell because its primary dev at the time |
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wanted it that way and it's only a single package. However, even then, |
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doing it was controversial enough that said developer ended up leaving |
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gentoo in-part over that, tho he did continue to develop openrc as a |
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gentoo hosted project for quite some years. Now you're talking trying to |
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do it for /every/ (well, almost every) package, thus touching every |
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single gentoo dev. It's just not going to happen in even the medium term |
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(say for argument APIs 5-7ish), let alone be something practical enough |
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to implement, soon enough (even if everyone agreed on the general idea, |
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they don't), to be anything like conceivable for EAPI5. |
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So just let that one be. It's simply not worth tilting at that windmill. |
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(Arguably, multi-arch, while practical and actually working at least with |
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portage in an overlay, fails that last bit as well. If it was pushed, |
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perhaps for EAPI6 or 7, but it's just not practical to consider it for |
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EAPI5... unless you want to wait 3-5 years for EAPI5!) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |