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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Staging 'einstalldocs' for EAPI 6
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:54:19
Message-Id: 21011.22753.599274.426474@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Staging 'einstalldocs' for EAPI 6 by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Micha³ Górny wrote:
2
3 > 1. Name
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5 > - einstalldocs
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7 > -- probably the least confusing one, consistent with emake
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9 Go for it.
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11 > 2. Support for HTML_DOCS
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13 I've no strong opinion about this one.
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15 But if you are going to add it, then please support both array and
16 whitespace separated list, so that it's consistent with DOCS.
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18 > 3. Support DOCS=() / DOCS='' to disable dodoc
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20 Yes, please. The EAPI 4 default_src_install is broken that it doesn't
21 handle this case.
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23 > For example, hasufell has suggested checking ${DOCS// /} to support
24 > DOCS=' ' as well.
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26 Looks like over-engineering to me. Are there any use cases for it?
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28 > 4. Globbing support in DOCS array
29 > 5. Appending to DOCS
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31 Creeping featurism. Define an explicit src_install if you need any of
32 these, and I'm sure it will improve readability of your ebuild.
33
34 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Staging 'einstalldocs' for EAPI 6 hasufell <hasufell@g.o>