Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27 Proposal - Feedback Requested

[Danny van Dyk]

Hello Mike,

Am Dienstag, 30. Mai 2006 05:29 schrieb Mike Kelly:
> I'm Mike Kelly, one of the SoC-ers. I'll be working on GLEP 27 for
> the summer. Right now I'm looking for some basic feedback on my
> proposal.
>
> In particular, I know that at one point there was a push for the user
> info files to be XML, but I think it may be easier to implement them
> as simple shell variable files (like /etc/conf.d/*), since my plan
> was to write the core of the implementation in shell (e.g. as an
> eclass).
>
>From your proposal:

 - Add code to the eutils.eclass which will detect if the installed
   version of portage supports the new system, notifies the operator
   that the current ebuild is using depreciated code, and properly add
   the user using the new system's code. This would check for the
   proper EAPI version to know when to execute the new code instead.

As a member of Release Engineering who encountered already a problem 
with user-management code in eutils.eclass, i beg you: _pleeeease_ 
don't add it to that eclass. Instead, create a new eclass 'euser' or 
something similar and add it there.

Danny
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project

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