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Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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>> Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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>>> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>>> Hi all, |
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>>>> Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log |
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>>>> will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. |
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>>> wrt GLEP 56: |
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>>> i) I don't see a specification when use.local.desc is finally going to be |
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>>> dropped |
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>>> ii) Why not switch to XML for use.desc as well? (just to be consequent) |
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>>> We could then use XInclude in a package's metadata.xml to include a |
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>>> global use.desc.xml in <use>...</use> |
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>>> (The requirements could then be changed to: the USE flags description has |
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>>> to be written in the packages metadata.xml) |
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>> Incremental steps are better then one huge sweeping change. It'll allow |
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>> us to evaluate the needs and goals of the project as we move forward. |
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> I agree. |
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>> The big concern with dropping use.desc is that multiple USE flags that |
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>> do the same thing will start to pop up across the whole tree because |
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>> developers won't know that a USE flag already exists for feature X. |
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> I'd not drop use.desc, I'd substitute it with an XML-based file using a |
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> similar (or the same) syntax as metadata.xml. |
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> But instead of having the package manager (or other tools operating with USE |
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> flags/USE flag descriptions) to lookup in either a package's metadata.xml |
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> _or_ a global use.desc.xml, I'd use XInclude in metadata.xml (which then |
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> includes the global use.desc.xml) such that the package manager (or other |
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> tools) just have to consider a package's metadata.xml. |
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> This approach would make it possible to have more than one use.desc.xml. |
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> For example for kde or gnome related global USE-flags: kde.use.desc.xml or |
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> gnome.use.desc.xml. |
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If you write the code.... |
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That's the biggest issue with features and ideas people propose. No one |
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is willing to sit down and write the code necessary. Look at how many |
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GLEPs set unimplemented because of lack of code. |
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This also involves increasing the XML support in every package manager, |
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which is not going to be a small undertaking. |
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