Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] git-r3.eclass: Make EGIT_LIVE_* associative arrays

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:28:39 -0500
Dan Douglas <ormaaj@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 06/23/2016 01:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > It would be best if we could kill the old way but I doubt it's a good idea right now.
>
> Yeah I was sad when I realized a nice naming scheme just barely
> wasn't going to work thanks to EGIT_LIVE_REPO_URI being shortened to
> EGIT_LIVE_REPO, but I didn't want to break it.
>
> The other thing is the associative arrays not being exportable so if we
> want something that can work for interactive use / make.conf / package.env
> then we almost need both.
>
> > One request though: don't use PN but CATEGORY/PN.
>
> True. I wasn't sure just how far to go with it. If you really wanted
> to go all-out I could split arbitrary atoms with versionator and figure out a
> custom lookup function to match up keys-values... but ugh. I'll just do
> CATEGORY/PN for now. :)

Well, just to be clear I don't like that magic either. However, I
wanted to preserve it for compatibility with old git-2 eclass, i.e. so
that when ebuilds are updated from git-2 to git-r3 people's overrides
won't suddenly stop working.

Originally I just wanted to expect people to override EGIT_REPO_URI via
package.env but that won't work since ebuilds would override it.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>