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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> * scripts in FILESDIR: In some packages i found scripts which |
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>> doesn't get used by the ebuild, but is probably used for generating |
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>> patches/tarballs. Should i file a bugs about them as i though the |
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>> FILESDIR should be only used for patches. Wouldn't be |
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>> /etc/portage/scripts the perfect place for such scripts? |
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> If they're not used by the tree, they probably don't belong in the |
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> tree, but maybe I lack imagination. Can you give a few examples? |
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We had a review of such files before the git conversion: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 |
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Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. |
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At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of |
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such files (namely, 12 when that comment was written) so the space |
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taken by them is negligible. |
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Ulrich |
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