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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hooks are gone from java eclasses
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:25:27
Message-Id: f97aq7$9k3$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Hooks are gone from java eclasses by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163262
3 >
4 What is the situation regarding the hooks in general?
5
6 > > They're a horrible solution. They don't stack and they override
7 > > something that is used by users. What's going to happen if anyone else
8 > > starts using the same functions?
9 >
10 > It's primarily a user feature, introduced due to the usefulness of
11 > /etc/portage/bashrc breaking down with proper env state handling.
12 >
13 <snip>
14 > If paludis doesn't want to support (pre|post)_*, whatever, long term it
15 > was only a user feature.
16 >
17 > Short term, it's part of the required env support.
18 >
19 The "only a user feature" bothers me tbh. Is it so hard to make the
20 functions stack then?
21
22 (I'm thinking along the lines of an eclass which defines foo_src_unpack
23 which can be called by an ebuild function if overridden.)
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hooks are gone from java eclasses "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>