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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:54:24
Message-Id: 426CF693.7090109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses by Elfyn McBratney
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4 Elfyn McBratney wrote:
5 > Hi folks,
6 >
7 > The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category and
8 > per-package eclasses, the idea being that each category, and each package,
9 > could have it's own 'eclass' subdirectory containing category- or
10 > package-local eclasses. This in addition to having global eclasses in
11 > gentoo-x86/eclass.
12 >
13 > For example (totally hypothetical), the php-sapi* eclasses would be a primse
14 > example of a category-local eclass (their only used by the PHP SAPI ebuilds).
15 > I can't find any eclasses that exist currently that'd be a good example of a
16 > local-eclass, but hopefully you get the idea.
17 >
18 > Thoughts ? Anything I've missed ciaranm ? :)
19
20 I like the idea. cron.eclass would definitely fit in sys-process/eclass/
21 (although could we move existing eclasses anyways?).
22
23 I definitely see an advantage to package local eclasses (any package with a
24 non-trivial build system). All non version-specific stuff could be kept there.
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26 Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
27 -- Euripides
28
29 Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
30 [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>