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From: Dan Naumov <jago@telefragged.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice.
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:48:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020817194846.4204ba76.jago@telefragged.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020817163037.GA6497@jackpot.localdomain>

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:30:37 -0700
Jeremiah Mahler <jmahler@pacbell.net> wrote:

> But suppose someone did want an ebuild for the hourly CVS snapshots?
> How should it be named?

My personal belief is that ebuilds of hourly CVS snapshots should never leave the PORTDIR_OVERLAY of the original author. IMHO, Gentoo Portage is no place for autogenerated, untested CVS stuff. How are you going to go around non-compiling snapshots of broken trees and new compile options that appear from time to timw anyways ?

Ebuilds should be writted for things that are "set in stone" and don't go around changing on an hourly basis. You really don't want to have 2 users run "emerge blah" and get different versions of the same program, even though "emerge -u rsync" was run at the same time. This would be a horrible mess (which is currently the case with QuakeForge ebuild).

Sincerely,
Dan Naumov aka Jago


  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-17 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-17 16:09 [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice Dan Naumov
2002-08-17 16:30 ` Jeremiah Mahler
2002-08-17 16:48   ` Dan Naumov [this message]
2002-08-17 18:40     ` Blake Watters
2002-08-17 18:52       ` mike
2002-08-18 15:44     ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-08-19  4:40       ` Troy Dack
2002-08-19  5:30         ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul
2002-08-17 16:50   ` [gentoo-dev] " Bart Verwilst
2002-08-17 17:03     ` Dan Naumov
2002-08-17 18:12       ` mike
2002-08-17 18:32         ` Dan Naumov
2002-08-19  1:13     ` Charles Lacour
2002-08-19 20:04       ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-08-17 19:13 ` Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez

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