Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales

[Brian Harring]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27:30PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> * Don't mess with kdebuild until you're sure that no-one has any
>   kdebuild packages installed.

I'm not looking to start a fight, and frankly after a year or so I've 
learned to just subconsciously/automatically ignore kdebuild, but why 
exactly must this be in pms?

It's experimental w/ low user acceptance, and was fundamentally 
outside the gentoo mainstream.  If long term maintenance of it is 
desired for anyone who hasn't yet punted those ebuilds from their 
vdb, maintain it in a branch rather then the effective head (don't 
make the mainline suffer maintenance for something that was outside 
mainline).

My two cents mind you- at this point, flipping through the source, the 
kdebuild bits disrupt the flow from my view (and more importantly the 
resultant read of it due to folks trying to structure the text to be 
agnostic to non-kdebuild), more importantly doing so w/ minimal gain 
for the mainstream.

Either way, take it as a +1 for punting it from mainstream and making 
the kdebuild specific folk maintain their own branch rather then 
general eapi (gentoo specific) having to maintain it.  Branching of 
this sort is presumably one of the reasons pms uses a dvcs after all.

And to head off one angle of argument, I fully expect if I ever get 
ambitious enough to derive an eapi extension that I'll have to 
maintain it outside of pms mainline- being nonstandard, I'd expect 
nothing less (hence the +1 for punting kdebuild).

My two cents either way, and well aware it's probably not something 
everyone wants to hear.

Not a hard +1 since I've zero interest in a fight also, but a +1 
either way.

Sorry, but tis my views.
~harring