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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:35:05
Message-Id: 22492.15177.456611.482625@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist by Zac Medico
1 >>>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Zac Medico wrote:
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3 > If FILES supports USE conditionals,
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5 That is, similar syntax as for SRC_URI? That would make parsing of the
6 FILES variable by ebuilds practically impossible. So presumably, one
7 would need another variable similar to A then, containing the files
8 from FILES but without the USE-disabled ones.
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10 > then it's possible to use inotify to implement a QA check that
11 > detects unused files in FILES.
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13 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>