From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXzO9-0005BF-RI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:51:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40093E043E; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp03.tky.fi (smtp03.tky.fi [82.130.63.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2FA8E043E for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.130.46.209] ([82.130.46.209]) by smtp03.tky.fi (SMSSMTP 4.1.9.35) with SMTP id M2009021316513132088 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:51:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4995898A.4020708@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:54:02 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090111 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: prepalldocs References: <20090212214925.GA21532@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <20090213124130.TAfe8a6.tv@veller.net> <49956364.3050000@gentoo.org> <20090213140259.TAd9f00.tv@veller.net> In-Reply-To: <20090213140259.TAd9f00.tv@veller.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig206336FFEC837819CC4B5A13" X-Archives-Salt: 09093421-4b44-4cfa-afb1-7abb85885088 X-Archives-Hash: 36d13f3b72e8c32abec1f4f6d4153848 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig206336FFEC837819CC4B5A13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Torsten Veller wrote: >=20 > | 15:35 < dev-zero> prepalldocs should be kept internal and usage shoul= d be avoided > | 15:36 < dev-zero> reason: internal function and change of it's implem= entation prooves it > | 15:36 < dev-zero> if someone want's it's functionality he should prop= ose a solution for a future eapi >=20 > It is not an internal function. And it's a strange way to prove anythin= g. > Around 250 ebuilds use it. So there is probably someone who actually us= es this functionality. >=20 And what functionality is that exactly? It's not like we would have mandated the removal of prepalldocs from Portage. How do you propose other PMs would implement prepalldocs when you have no idea which behavior the ebuild authors were expecting at the time they wrote their ebuilds? More discussion happened in the meeting before the one yesterday I think.= > >> Maintainers should use the public APIs available to them. >=20 > It's in ebuild.5 for years. > And as recruiting lead you probably know that the Developer Handbook co= ntains it as well > . >=20 If someone would have put the work into it that doc would have died ages ago. Any way I changed the text there to mention that new ebuilds should not use it. >=20 > I will probably do it after i got answers to the questions above. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 I would much rather see the energy put into creating a well specified replacement for prepalldocs than trying to get prepalldocs to behave. Regards, Petteri --------------enig206336FFEC837819CC4B5A13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmViY0ACgkQcxLzpIGCsLQOEwCeNbYZQZ33BF02e74+60sIjzqt bpkAoIQbZeR4IeiLUAXxp0C6l0y/DlKo =3d1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig206336FFEC837819CC4B5A13--