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The current policy is to explicitly define everything as lintool asks... |
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for many/most ebuilds RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" works for now... SLOT is |
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semi-optional, but for a new package, just make it SLOT="0" for |
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consistency... |
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--Brandon |
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On Sat, 06/15/02 at 20:53:04 +0100, Mark Gordon wrote: |
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> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:56:29 -0500, Brandon Low <lostlogic@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> |
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> >Have you used the "lintool" script that comes with gentoolkit? It is a |
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> >nice tool which checks for most common ebuilding mistakes... |
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> Some questions about that. Looking at skel.ebuild I thought that |
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> RDEPEND did not need to be defined since it would default to DEPEND, |
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> yet lintool considers not defining it an error. |
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> Is it considered better to allow things to default when the documented |
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> defaults are correct or to explicitly define everything, in which case |
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> I would have thought the skel.ebuild should tell you the normal values |
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> but not say they are defaults for when items are not specified. |
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> I've already submitted one ebuild and hope to submit more, so I want |
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> to get them as 'correct' as possible. |
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> -- |
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> Mark Gordon |
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