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From: Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Misc questions on ebuilds
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 01:12:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020616011201.A15702@lostlogicx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6u5ngu8ocssir508h6v6a9ns2kk4klrkie@4ax.com>; from spamtrap@ruddygore.net on Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:53:04PM +0100

The current policy is to explicitly define everything as lintool asks...
for many/most ebuilds RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" works for now... SLOT is 
semi-optional, but for a new package, just make it SLOT="0" for 
consistency...

--Brandon

On Sat, 06/15/02 at 20:53:04 +0100, Mark Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:56:29 -0500, Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >Have you used the "lintool" script that comes with gentoolkit?  It is a 
> >nice tool which checks for most common ebuilding mistakes...
> 
> Some questions about that. Looking at skel.ebuild I thought that
> RDEPEND did not need to be defined since it would default to DEPEND,
> yet lintool considers not defining it an error.
> 
> Is it considered better to allow things to default when the documented
> defaults are correct or to explicitly define everything, in which case
> I would have thought the skel.ebuild should tell you the normal values
> but not say they are defaults for when items are not specified.
> 
> I've already submitted one ebuild and hope to submit more, so I want
> to get them as 'correct' as possible.
> -- 
> Mark Gordon
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-16  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-15  3:21 [gentoo-dev] Misc questions on ebuilds Keith Gross
2002-06-15  3:56 ` Brandon Low
2002-06-15 19:53   ` [gentoo-dev] " Mark Gordon
2002-06-16  6:12     ` Brandon Low [this message]
2002-06-16 18:40   ` [gentoo-dev] " Marcelo Fontenele S Santos

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