Brian Harring wrote:
>> The problem with these kinds of scripts is that their portability is not 
>> really assured.  I dubbed whether I would write a quick C version, but 
>> again I stumbled upon the portability question and decided not to do so, 
>> because portage, as inner core of Gentoo, should be as much as possible 
>> unaffected by environmental differences.  Python is (like Java) a 
>> solution to that.  So, ultimately, this script should be rewritten in 
>> Python.
> module, not script is prefered.

As I said, I'm a python illiterate :)

> Assuming I actually finish triggers and they don't suck, it'll be a 
> passing the func in, not exec'ing a strict.

hmmm... sounds good.  For my understanding, does it mean that the func 
could be executed based on (trigger) conditions, like ppc-macos or 
PREFIX != "/", pref.userWantsSheBang == True or something like that?


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