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On Tuesday 10 June 2008 18:26:55 Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> Let's try to aim to do an EAPI=2 sometime soonish since Portage now has |
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> USE flag depends in version 2.2 which is looming on the horizon. It'd be |
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> nice to hit the ground running with supporting these. I know it'll be |
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> trivial for the Paludis and pkgcore guys to make this work since they |
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> already support USE flag depends. |
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I would like the portage devs to comment upon which of the following features |
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they think could easily be implemented before portage 2.2 goes stable. |
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There's still some time since it hasn't left package.mask yet, so I'd rather |
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they exclude the features that will take too long to implement than anybody |
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else doing that... |
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Already implemented: |
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- Use dependencies, it's not clear to me whether we all agree entirely upon |
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the syntax yet though (bugs #2272 and #174406) |
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Things I believe should be trivial to implement: |
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- Custom output names in SRC_URI, also called arrows (bug #177863) |
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- Guarantee trailing slashes (bug #174408) |
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- Limit values in $USE (bug #176467) |
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- doins support for symlinks (bug #179932) |
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- Enable FEATURES=test by default (bug #184812) |
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- GLEP 42 - news items |
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Bigger features I'm interested in: |
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- Making do* die on failure by default (without changing their behaviour for |
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previous eapis). Possibly adding either nonfatal or try_do* for cases where |
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this isn't desired. (bug #138792) |
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- More phases |
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- src_prepare, for applying patches and running autotools etc. |
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- src_configure, for running configure scripts (bug #197859) |
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- pkg_pretend (bug #177860 - could also be used to fix bug #75936) |
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- maint_*, it's not clear to me if this has been fleshed out in sufficient |
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detail yet (bug #185567) |
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- default_*, allows an ebuild to redefine phases to add more functionality and |
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then call default_$phase. Currently the default phases are lost when |
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redefining the phases. |
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- default for src_install (bug #33544) |
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- Ranged dependencies (bug #4315) |
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Of course I'd like GLEPs 54 and 55 too but since the council still hasn't made |
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a decision about them I'll leave them out.. |
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Bo Andresen |
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Gentoo KDE Dev |
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