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I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a |
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completely worthless description (and even more set a mostly worthless |
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DESCRIPTION) which ends up contaminating the DESCRIPTION for an ebuild |
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when inherit is done after DESCRIPTION is set. |
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I realize that most of you will find this a little pedantic, however, I |
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find that needing to move my DESCRIPTION to below the inherit often |
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severely affects the readability of the ebuild, and all to avoid a |
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completely (or nearly) worthless DESCRIPTION from contaminating my |
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environment. |
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In my opinion, the text "# @DESCRIPTION" in an eclass is more than |
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enough for readability, and setting DESCRIPTION only serves to |
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contaminate the environment. The is especially true for the following |
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eclasses that set the DESCRIPTION from the subject: |
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ozzie eclass # grep 'DESCRIPTION="Based on the ' *.eclass |
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cannadic.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass" |
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confutils.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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embassy.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass" |
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eutils.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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games.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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gnatbuild.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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gnuconfig.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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libtool.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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linux-mod.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass" |
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nsplugins.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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perl-module.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass" |
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qmail.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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toolchain-funcs.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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Although these are the ones that make me the most unhappy, I see no |
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purpose for setting DESCRIPTION in any eclass as it really serves no |
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purpose to source the eclass then source the ebuild 0.01s later and |
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overwrite the DESCRIPTION. Fixing this is not difficult, unlikely to |
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affect anything, but will help avoid one tiny little annoyance that |
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really looks like a relic from a time long long ago. |
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Thanks for the consideration |
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- -Zero |
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