Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] ebuild: set up bash compat levels
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:33:16
Message-Id: 20151113023306.GC13299@tarragon.ad.analog.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] ebuild: set up bash compat levels by Zac Medico
1 On 2015-11-12 21:25, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > > Just to note another approach, pkgcore generates global and per-eapi
3 > > function lists at install time (or uses the generation scripts when
4 > > running from a checkout) so manually tracking lists of functions isn't
5 > > required.
6
7 > That seems like a pretty reasonable approach, at least up until PMS
8 > reserved the __ prefix for package managers. I'm pretty sure that Mike
9 > is intend on exploiting this reserved prefix now. :)
10
11 I don't think it's always possible to use a prefix for functions that
12 shouldn't be saved to the env that are internally implemented in the PM
13 but externally accessible in ebuilds, e.g. insinto, docinto, inherit,
14 etc.
15
16 Tim

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