Re: [gentoo-dev] Help testing ebuilds? golang/Fabio load balancer

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu nie, 12.11.2017 o godzinie 07∶53 -0500, użytkownik Michael
Orlitzky napisał:
> On 11/11/2017 02:26 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > 
> > > As far as the actual implementation goes, I'm not sure that
> > > automatically-generated ".keep" files are better than having the package
> > > manager maintain its own database. The latter would be more complex, but
> > > would avoid littering everyone's filesystems with ".keep" files.
> > 
> > Do you care enough to spec this properly, introduce EAPI-conditional
> > behavior for it and prepare patches for the package managers?
> > 
> 
> Some day -- I'll add it to my list. For now I'll update the docs to
> explain why you should use keepdir, and do a QA warning for empty
> directories.

I'm not convinced a QA warning is valid, given that not every empty
directory is meaningful. You're going to either cause people to create
unnecessary 'keepdir's, or to be swamped by false positives.

>  Then how does this sound for EAPI=next?
> 
>   * Ban keepdir.
> 
>   * Have portage call its keepdir code on any empty directories in $D
>     between src_install and pkg_preinst.

How does this account for /run and other non-persistent locations?

>   * Update the devmanual and portage documentation to suggest dodir
>     instead of keepdir in the new EAPI.
> 
>   * Change the PMS to remove "undefined behavior" and replace it with
>     "empty directories must be tracked, and may only be removed once no
>     installed package is using them," or something along those lines.
>     That leaves the implementation up to the PM.

...and makes interoperability between different package managers
impossible, defeating the purpose of PMS in the first place.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny