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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:02:00 -0400 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > These fail: |
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> > |
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> > cp somefile dirdoesnotexist/ |
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> > mv somefile dirdoesnotexist/ |
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> > ln -s somefile dirdoesnotexist/ |
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> > dohard somefile dirdoesnotexist/ |
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> > mkdir dirdoesnotexist/newdir |
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> > |
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> > This succeeds: |
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> > |
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> > dosym somefile dirdoesnotexist/ |
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> any other obvious statements you care to make ? |
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> compare your standard handwritten Makefile install: target to |
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> src_install() in an ebuild ... i'll take the much shorter |
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> src_install() any day |
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Except that we already know that it doesn't make a substantial |
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difference to the lengths of src_installs in the tree. Very few |
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packages are relying upon the automatic directory creation. |
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> > The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're |
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> > trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because |
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> > there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't |
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> > lead to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in |
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> > future EAPIs is an easy way of helping arch teams achieve this goal |
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> > without breaking anyone's system in the meantime. |
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> if you have a problem with the QA team then complain to your buddy spb |
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Er, no, I'm explaining why enforcing src_test for EAPI 1 will be |
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helpful for an awful lot of Gentoo developers. |
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Please refrain from that kind of comment. It doesn't help anyone. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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