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On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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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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improper package testing that was saved by a dosym that did not create |
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directories ... useful mayhaps, but not nearly enough to justify the proposed |
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change |
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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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the behavior here is desired ... you install into a directory, then the |
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directory should exist |
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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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that's really the QA's job to enforce, not the package manager |
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if the QA team wants to spear head a tree wide effort at getting src_test up |
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and running, they're certainly free to |
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-mike |
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