From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344855117.17434.9.camel@kanae> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120810162127.493a455a@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net>
Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 16:21 +0200, Jeroen Roovers a écrit :
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:03:23 +0200
> Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Since you are proposing this, a side question is:
> > Why should we write SRC_URI in ebuilds if that info is now available
> > in metadata.xml ? (granted that we might still want to keep
> > over-riding this information in ebuilds)
I was not suggesting to erase SRC_URI from all ebuilds but for things
that have well defined rules like gnome packages, defining SRC_URI is
mostly a useless excercise.
5) The inversion of your question: Why should we start handling SRC_URI
> outside ebuilds and eclasses? Or, how would that be practical,
> advantageous, an improvement on the current situation.
>
I will add against my own question that eclasses currently handle this
(see gnome.org eclass) very well. So maybe there is nothing to debate
here :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-13 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-10 11:11 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] euscan: Need to add more upstream info in metadata.xml Federico "fox" Scrinzi
2012-08-10 12:03 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2012-08-10 14:21 ` [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI " Jeroen Roovers
2012-08-10 14:24 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-10 20:05 ` Corentin Chary
2012-08-10 20:12 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-11 11:55 ` Corentin Chary
2012-08-11 22:43 ` Alec Warner
2012-08-11 23:53 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-13 10:25 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2012-08-13 14:50 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-13 10:51 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue [this message]
2012-08-10 20:04 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] euscan: Need to add more upstream info " Corentin Chary
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