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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES="live-sources" setting for ebuilds?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:38:37
Message-Id: 489946A6.6060700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES="live-sources" setting for ebuilds? by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > To simplify things, how about if we just do a
3 > PROPERTIES=live-src-unpack for now, to indicate exclusive access to
4 > $DISTDIR during src_unpack? Thats a simple and portable baseline
5 > that will be quite useful even without anything finer grained.
6
7 No need for a convoluted and long name like 'live-src-unpack'. Why not
8 keep things simple (how about just 'live'?). You are trying to say it's
9 a 'live' ebuild (i.e. it gets the sources from a live source) - that's
10 all. The locking issues are a technical detail, and there's no need to
11 spell out all aspects of the property in the name; it's just confusing.
12 In fact, you may want to change technical implementation details later,
13 and it would be best not to have left-over details in the name that then
14 would not apply.
15
16 -Joe

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES="live-sources" setting for ebuilds? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES="live-sources" setting for ebuilds? David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>