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Am Sonntag, 7. April 2013, 04:05:11 schrieb Ryan Hill: |
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> Toolchain packages, for better or worse, are built by eclass. We are not |
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> forward-porting toolchain.eclass every time someone decides there are too |
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> many EAPIs in the tree. Every change to that eclass breaks something (the |
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> trick is to break things people don't care about any more and hope no one |
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> notices). |
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I'm sorry, but this comes over roughly like follows: |
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"We're the only ones doing really complex stuff in the tree, you know, |
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eclasses! Can't really be bothered to clean up the code, especially not for |
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such pointless things as improvements in package manager handling. Our code is |
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highly complex and really fragile, so every small change breaks things. We're |
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trying to hide this as well as we can, thank you for not noticing." |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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