Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for enhancement to PMS/EAPI7+

[M. J. Everitt]

On 18/05/16 07:43, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2016 04:07:07 +0100
> "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
>
>> I've just been party to a discussion over in the Proxy Maintainers
>> channel .. and the subject of correct ways to install documentation
>> popped up. It seems to me rather quirky, that there is no middle ground
>> in (for example) EAPI6 to have the default documentation installed per
>> https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-144003r4 , PLUS maybe
>> another folder or file(s). The existing framework ONLY allows *either*
>> /only/ the default documentation *or* an override through the DOCS=
>> variable.
>>
>> My idea thus, was inspired by the simple bash DOCS+= ( ) statement, that
>> would allow you to append files/folders to the installdocs list,
>> assuming that DOCS was pre-populated with an existing set of files.
>> Obviously the status quo is set for EAPI6 and algorithms defined, but
>> wondered if it could be considered for a future update/improvement cycle?!
> How is this going to work? In order to pre-populate it, you need to
> know the list of files. And the list of files isn't known until
> src_install(). In fact, with the current behavior it's not even known
> before einstalldocs is actually called, and changing that could break
> stuff.
>
At present the DOCS to be installed in the default function are
hard-coded into the PMS in 'einstalldocs' .. not exactly very good if
you decided later to change it?!