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Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Wed Jun 23 2004, 12:08:36PM EDT] |
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> Would comments in the ebuild not be enough? Look at the |
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> vmware-workstation-4.5.2 ebuild for an example. |
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> I don't see why it would not be easy enough to comment the reasons an |
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> ebuild might not be marked stable. Another example that I can think of |
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> is the xorg-x11 ebuilds. You can see an obvious TODO list before it is |
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> considered stable. |
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I don't think comments would be enough. Many arch maintainers are |
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using ekeyword and ignoring the rest of the ebuild, because it is too |
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much to take the time to read through every ebuild looking for red |
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flags. Also, comments make it impossible to use repoman to do the |
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checking unless they're in a specific format, and at that point you |
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might as well put things in a variable or in metadata |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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