From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E0C4139694 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B921E21C1F6; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7376821C11D for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16550341650 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170316093806.31977-1-mgorny@gentoo.org> <20170320083544.GZ24205@vapier> <2240597.YoP4Ev77Vx@porto> <1652433.oqbzW57v8l@porto> <20170323105101.0f622f66@gentoo.org> <1490288005.1534.1.camel@gentoo.org> <20170323195213.406ba9f8@gentoo.org> <1490295612.1534.3.camel@gentoo.org> <20170323212254.1bb17f3d@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <1605d79d-845d-c6eb-93d9-0828a1a663e1@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:20:59 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170323212254.1bb17f3d@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 80844723-cee2-44bc-bb08-88d2aa75e577 X-Archives-Hash: dbd1d2f153149fd64d596615ca0b8242 On 03/23/2017 04:22 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Indeed, according to pms.git commit log, the rule was laxed because it > was clearly an oversight in EAPI6 [1] and was the standard behavior in > previous EAPIs. But in the same commit, an "harmless note" was added > that "Ebuilds must not access the directory in global scope." in > addition to the "May or may not exist" statement and "Not necessarily > present when installing from a binary package" footnote. Please explain > how this last addition is not a backwards-breaking change. PMS is not a > tool to push your personal agenda of cleaning up the deve^^err tree. > > > [1] > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=fa4ac9474048ec75af138fc61f22485c06aac5b7 > Read that diff again. Before the commit, FILESDIR was invalid in global scope (only valid in src_*). This commit makes it valid in global scope, but adds the "... don't access it there" clause. It's not a breaking change because any behavior affected by the clause was already illegal before the commit.