Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg-mgr-commands: Replace MAKEOPTS conf var with explicit description

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 14 May 2016, Michał Górny wrote:

> Replace the mentioning of MAKEOPTS configuration variable with
> generic description of 'make options'. This is in line with other
> parts of the specification where we avoid referencing package
> manager configuration explicitly. Furthermore, MAKEOPTS was only
> mentioned this one time with no explanatory description and no
> guarantee of being exported to the ebuild environment, so it is
> better to avoid making developers think it is reliable.

The council has rejected the EJOBS feature (see bug 273101) twice,
namely for EAPI 5 and EAPI 6. In the discussion about EAPI 6 the
main argument was that similar functionality already exists with
the makeopts_jobs() and makeopts_loadavg() functions provided by
multiprocessing.eclass (see 20140617 council log). Both functions
rely on the MAKEOPTS variable.

So, IMHO removal of this variable cannot be done in a simple editorial
change but needs to be discussed in the -dev mailing list. We would
also need a replacement for the two above-mentioned functions (which
presumably will require an EAPI bump).

Ulrich