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From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:39:11
Message-Id: 200506301435.06717.caleb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thursday 30 June 2005 02:15 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > it depends on the information that the function acts upon ...
3 >
4 > if the results depend on stuff that is installed (i.e. things in
5 > /var/db/pkg) or env vars the user manipulates (like $SOME_FOO), then that's
6 > bad ... if the results depend on a variable that changes across ebuilds but
7 > retains the same value in a specific ebuild (like $PN or $PV), that is OK
8 > -mike
9
10 This function doesn't rely on anything that isn't directly within the eclass
11 itself - ie, a static list of all of the Qt versions over the ages. No files
12 on the system or environment variables at all.
13
14 Caleb
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