Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in net-mail/getmail: ChangeLog getmail-4.9.2.ebuild

[Jeremy Olexa]

Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 23:48 +0200, Jeroen Roovers a écrit :
>> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:13 +0200
>> Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>> We are working on a proper explanation targetted to devs of this.  I'm
>>> sorry for the inconvenience caused.
>> How large of a change to the tree will this involve? Is it a small
>> number of packages that need to be fixed through the ebuilds right now?
>> will that number grow? Will you notify package maintainers of these
>> changes?
>
> Apparently not, it's not that the change is complicated but I (and the
> rest of the gnome herd) would rather have an upfront information about
> any kind of changes to our ebuilds than discovering these through
> gentoo-commits...

Jeroen / Gilles : Coming soon. The internal draft was just prepared but 
Fabian will be sending it.

>
>>> For the moment you can find our own documentation here:
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/techdocs.xml
>> Where did you document D -> ED? Can you briefly describe what it does?

See the section "The variables ED and EROOT" on that link. I don't want 
to open it up for discussion on this thread though.

>
> I'd also like to know why this cannot be handled by the usual D with
> package manager support, this would save a lot of changes to ebuilds
> (like the python abi stuff that still has no documentation afaik).
>
> I sincerely want to see progress in the way we handle prefix, python
> abis and all the cool stuff that is still in preparation, but let's do
> it in a way to makes every dev aware of it (sending a mail to
> gentoo-dev-announce for example), thanks.

Thanks for your support on behalf of the Prefix team,
-Jeremy