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Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2009, 23:31 -0700 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: |
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> On 21:22 Sun 08 Mar , Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > On 23:35 Sun 08 Mar , Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> > > Well, the point I'm trying to make here is a different one: The syntax |
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> > > you proposed is more to write but still equivalent to the one using |
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> > > vars. And looking at the ebuilds - taking G2CONF as an example - it |
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> > > seems that people don't have a problem with putting their config |
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> > > options into vars. And furthermore with your syntax you still have to |
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> > > write out "econf $(use_with ...)" explicitly while adding it the |
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> > > conf-vars to a var (as proposed) makes the complete src_configure |
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> > > function obsolete, allows the usage of the default |
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> > > src_configure/src_compile/src_install (see |
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> > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_17e6ae8082aeb762fd01ba7307457789.xml |
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> > > for example) and is therefore even shorter to write. |
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> > I think the idea of ebuilds as scripts showing directly how to build |
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> > software is a core part of the Gentoo build-system philosophy. This |
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> > proposal pushes ebuilds toward a formatted file that is not a script. |
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> > Instead, it is more like an Ant XML file that more abstractly describes |
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> > a build. I think this is the wrong direction for ebuilds because they |
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> > should directly resemble how software is built by hand. |
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> > One of the key reasons people use Gentoo is that ebuilds are so easy to |
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> > "get" for anyone who has ever built software by hand. I will continue to |
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> > vehemently defend anything that I think retains this key advantage of |
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> > Gentoo over other distributions. |
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> To return to the original point of this whole thread, your goal was to |
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> get EAPI=3 through fairly quickly without tons of controversial points. |
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> I don't think this component qualifies. Feel free to bring it up again |
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> for 4. |
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Wanted to say the same thing. Removed from the list. |