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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass proposal: auto-export
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:26:31
Message-Id: 49EF5428.5060709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass proposal: auto-export by Arun Raghavan
1 Arun Raghavan wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:35 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Here's an eclass proposal to wrap EXPORT_FUNCTIONS with auto detection
4 >> of functions. This way all eclasses don't have to duplicate the EAPI
5 >> detection code. If people find this useful, I will document it properly
6 >> with eclass-manpages etc.
7 >
8 > Looks like a nice way to avoid silly errors while writing eclasses.
9 > Would this make sense as a package manager feature?
10 >
11 > -- Arun
12
13 In general I would like to see more bash code shared between package
14 managers. For this case you would still have to keep code around for
15 current EAPIs. I think this feature has been on the table for new EAPI
16 features at least at some point.
17
18 Regards,
19 Petteri

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