Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2 gentoolkit 2/2] eclean: Add option to delete binpkgs with changed deps
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:49:34
Message-Id: CAEdQ38G8+8g3Zv9cKVgLb-CVBtUqFHUNuhGWO_Y9CVeYAr58Tg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2 gentoolkit 2/2] eclean: Add option to delete binpkgs with changed deps by Zac Medico
1 On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:23 PM Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > The coupling with --destructive logic complicates matters. It raises the
3 > question, why isn't --time-limit logic also coupled with --destructive
4 > logic? I think "in order to preserve the status quo" is a reasonable
5 > answer to this question.
6
7 Yeah :(
8
9 It's clear to me that these options were added in a very ad hoc
10 manner. And... named badly if I do say so. E.g., destructive and
11 package_names do not correspond, at least in my mind, to the
12 operations they do.
13
14 I'd like to clean those up as a follow on.