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On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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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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> > |
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> > any other obvious statements you care to make ? |
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> > |
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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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i bet you have hard #s to back that up ? since you dont, bloating src_install |
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is not the answer to a marginalized issue |
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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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except that you back the tree into a corner that it cannot come out of |
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> Please refrain from that kind of comment. It doesn't help anyone. |
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the answer is the same: talk to the QA team to get the tree into a state where |
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having src_test enabled by default is feasible and then the QA team can |
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change the profile |
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enforcing via spec is the wrong way to go here ... spec is for defining how |
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the ebuilds work, not for forcing policy down peoples throats |
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-mike |
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