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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:05:49PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as |
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> #gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it. |
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> We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section |
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> to the ebuild or to the metadata. However. all of these tend to have |
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> problems. |
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> The dev won't write the extra function, |
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In your proposal this would be "the dev won't write the extra changelog |
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content" and ... |
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> duplication of data in pkg_{post/pre}inst, |
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... "duplication of data in Changelog/pkg_post". |
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> mangling of metadata.xml. |
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I don't know what this means, but I don't think pkg_warn has this |
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problem. |
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So I don't see any advantage of putting it in the changelog. I actually |
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like the pkg_warn idea much better. |
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So tell me again, what does your proposal solve of the problems you see |
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with pkg_warn? |
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Regards, |
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Maurice. |
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Maurice van der Pot |
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Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@g.o http://www.gentoo.org |
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