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On Friday 04 June 2004 19:47, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Jason Stubbs wrote: [Thu Jun 03 2004, 06:31:53PM EDT] |
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> > Three options: |
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> > 1) Drop portage caching altogether. |
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> > 2) Separate the global section into a separate non-bash file with |
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> > new syntax. 3) Make everything constant in the global section of |
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> > ebuilds. |
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> I think #3 is already the case, basically. Anything outside of |
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> functions should be constant. The problem is that we haven't made |
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> this clear to developers, so there is still some use foo && ... |
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> Is there anything outside of functions that doesn't need to be |
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> constant? I can't think of anything. Maybe boiling the problem down |
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> to this point is enough to "solve" the problem. |
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Parsing anything but variable substitutions ( ${FOOBAR} ) is very hard. |
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We could create variable substitutions though that allow some kinds of |
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dynamic behaviour such as SLOT variables dependend on installed |
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packages / useflags |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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