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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 07:45:58
Message-Id: 20160522094537.46b1653c.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, 21 May 2016 20:45:18 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 21 May 2016 17:08, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
5 > > This function is too generic to be in
6 > > rebar.eclass, so I have decided to move it to eutils. What is the
7 > > problem with adding it to eutils?
8 >
9 > because no one else is using it or cares about it. we've gotten by
10 > for more than 10 years at this point w/out someone asking for this.
11
12 Which makes me think of the terribly ugly evar_push which is used only
13 by you, as part of bad epatch implementation and one eblit. Yet it is
14 in eutils, and from time to time we have to tell our users 'you can do
15 things more correctly than using a crappy function that looks like it's
16 official'.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny
21 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>