Re: [gentoo-dev] Secure Gentoo - What do you think?

["Damon M. Conway" <damon@3jane.net>]

 Mikael Hallendal wrote:
>tis 2002-01-08 klockan 16.54 skrev Damon M. Conway:
>
>> I think this is where eclasses could really help.  Eclasses should allow
>> you to create a meta ebuild that looks for certain make.conf vars set and
>> react accordingly.  danarmak and drobbins are the ones to ask for more
>> details on eclasses.
>
>For now eclasses should _only_ be used in KDE. A decission still has to
>be made about eclasses. And both me and drobbins have some objections to
>eclasses.

Hmm, ok.  I thought they were on their way to finalization.

>For one I think that eclasses break one of ebuilds most important
>strength. The ease of use, that they are almost identical to installing
>a package manually.

Depends on usage.  I think eclasses could be quite powerful for
cross-platform capabilities and system types (SuxOS, Web Server, etc), and
they, in theory, can pick up the global configuation baton where make.conf
leaves off.  As long as they are well-defined, I don't see how they really
cause any problems, or make ebuilds any harder to write.

kabau

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