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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check A's size in go-module.eclass
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:33:29
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40unYwZC1BxOE-E5sRRLB_A4u8xcK5OKqJAUxfuwZEP3A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check A's size in go-module.eclass by Florian Schmaus
1 On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:06 AM Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > This is a first suggestion in an effort to reach a compromise that
5 > allows EGO_SUM to be un-depracted.
6 >
7 > I have decided to check the size of A, instead of counting the entries
8 > in EGO_SUM, because that seemed more sensible given that as A's size
9 > caused functional issues in the past (bug #719202 [1]).
10 >
11 > 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/719202
12
13 I would suggest we simply add a comment to warn ebuild developers that
14 some unknown large number of modules may cause build failures. If/when
15 the ebuild starts to fail, they will know they went over the limit and
16 will have to start collapsing files into tarballs.