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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:53:38 -0400 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> > It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a |
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> > blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. |
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> name one |
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dosym's old behaviour prevented a broken Vim release (upstream screwed |
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up a Makefile dependency) from getting into the tree unnoticed. Had |
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that happened after you changed some (but not all) of the do* |
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utilities, the duff symlinks would probably have gone unnoticed for a |
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while. |
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> you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install functions |
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> for no gain at all ... sounds like a no brainer to me |
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No, I'm proposing that functions not have strange side effects. |
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> > > > * src_test always called except if RESTRICT=test |
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> > > I don't think this would fit into EAPI, to me it's an |
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> > > implementation detail of the package manager, or why should the |
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> > > ebuild care about it? |
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> > It's the best way of ensuring that ebuilds have a working src_test. |
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> > Arch teams need this. |
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> then arch teams can update their profiles |
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Well no, they can't, because there are a whole load of ebuilds that |
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will break if they do that. But if it's introduced as mandatory |
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(barring ebuilds RESTRICTing it) for EAPI 1, the tree will slowly move |
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towards everything that reasonably can do having working test suites, |
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which will be a huge step forward for QA. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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