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On 04/13/2016 12:19 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:55:56 -0400 NP-Hardass |
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> <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote: [...] |
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>> The idea was partly due to consistency. Rather than calling |
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>> mate_this gnome2_that, it'd provide one namespace. Additionally |
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>> as mentioned in my initial email, since GNOME and MATE aren't |
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>> always in synch, if the gnome2 eclass chooses to change |
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>> something, and it's better that mate eclass stays with what we |
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>> have, all I have to do is fill in the stub, and all ebuilds |
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>> retain their current implementation. Otherwise, I'd have to mass |
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>> edit all ebuilds to replace the offending gnome2_ with mate_. |
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> yep, makes sense |
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>> Furthermore, there was a discussion a long time ago about how |
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>> functions shouldn't be called without an explicit inherit. That |
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>> means that even if the mate eclass uses gnome2, if I opt to call |
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>> gnome2 directly in the ebuild, I have to explicitly inherit it |
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>> (which mostly defeats the purpose of inheriting it in the mate |
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>> eclass). |
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> nah, this isnt true in your case: you can define mate.eclass' API |
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> to always include gnome2.eclass, making it ok to use gnome2 |
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> functions by inheriting only mate.eclass. this means you can never |
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> drop gnome2.eclass from mate.eclass though, which may not be |
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> desired |
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I'm unfamiliar with this. Do you have a reference that I can look at? |
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>> This has an added bonus, which is that the gnome2 eclass inherits |
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>> gnome.org, so I have to make sure to re-inherit mate-desktop.org |
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>> whenever gnome2 is (re)inherited to prevent all of variables like |
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>> SRC_URI from being overwritten. Hope that I'm conveying that |
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>> logic adequately. |
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> ok, maybe you could add a comment that no ebuild should inherit |
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> both gnome2 & mate eclasses then |
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