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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:32:30 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > You know you can make that argument about *every* useflag right? Being |
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> > unable to test with one and the other co-installed? |
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> Did you see the comment where portage has this function now? |
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I don't actually know what he's referring to specifically, so I |
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couldn't say. My best guess is something to do with "--prefix" but not |
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sure. |
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It could just be plain ol' slotting and eselect, but that's not "for |
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everything". |
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> > What are the benefits. |
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> Knowing what you are getting in seconds, made by whom. |
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Would you similarly want the name of the last gentoo developer who |
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touched the ebuild in the atom? No? Why not? |
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> > If Upstream and Gentoo both provide binary releases, but the Gentoo |
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> > one sucks, we should just abolish the Gentoo one. |
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> > If Upstream and Gentoo both provide binary releases, but upstreams |
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> > sucks, then we should not ship the upstream version. |
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> What if you simply just do not know who made the binary? |
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Then the realisation that "not everyone cares" happens, and you go "ok, |
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I care, so I have to spend effort to care". |
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And then automatic masking strategies or emerge output decoration come |
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into play as viable solutions. As does showing the data in `eix` |
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output, etc. |
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Or we're going to find ourselves back debating the old "Eapi in ebuild |
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filename" debate, except worse, we'd be wanting EAPI visible in the |
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ATOM! |
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There's a lot of "but what if you care!??!" things, perhaps this may be |
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an important one to you, but some people care a lot about LICENSE and |
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some people just don't. |
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And its *really* not worth stashing that metadata in the name for a |
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minority, who *can* answer their questions. |
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Granted, it is just *4* characters, we're debating about here, so the |
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bikeshed is rainbow striped with sparkles. |
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The trick with bikesheds is everyone wants to be the person who decides |
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the colour of the shed, but are too cautious to wage in on what colour |
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we paint the house. |
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Because if we paint the house, "ew, we're stuck with this" if it turns |
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out gross. |
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But if we paint the bikeshed nasty, "eh, its just a bike shed". |
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