From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from member.michigannet.com (mail.michigannet.com [208.49.116.30]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F95ABBB0 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:30:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from squish.home.loc (annex-0-4-port-9.dialup.coast.net [207.158.181.9]) by member.michigannet.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g7J5WRn28492 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:32:28 -0400 Received: by squish.home.loc (Postfix, from userid 666) id 0332E146AE; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:30:09 -0400 From: Paul To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20020819053009.GB4168@squish.home.loc> References: <20020817190905.66977331.jago@telefragged.com> <20020817163037.GA6497@jackpot.localdomain> <20020817194846.4204ba76.jago@telefragged.com> <3D5FC0EF.9090100@gmx.de> <1029732059.5904.4.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1029732059.5904.4.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Very bad ebuild-writing practice. Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 34e647f2-9478-444c-b191-7487fb873893 X-Archives-Hash: ffe91cead6289430e9c77f95e4081002 Troy Dack , on Mon Aug 19, 2002 [02:40:59 PM] said: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 01:44, Alexander Gretencord wrote: [...] > > > > Well I think we do need such ebuilds _but_ they gotta be named > > accordingly. You have to see that it is a cvs ebuild. I for one use [...] > > Have a look at Dan's kde-cvs ebuilds @ > http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde-cvs.html > > I've been using them for the last couple of months with no major > problems. I don't think it would be too difficult to adapt them for > mplayer or any other application. > > I think that using cvs eclass based ebuilds instead of a snapshot tar > ball is preferably, at least the end user is clear on the type of code > that they are going to be receiving and attempting to compile. > > -- > Troy Dack Hi; I agree that cvs ebuilds are useful, as long as they are named properly. Dont take away functionality from me, just because I might shoot myself in the foot. Can something like this be done for the app-doc/howto-* ebuilds? The source these things come from seems to be generated daily, and the frozen snapshot we have tends to be months old... The latest is available for free, we should take advantage of it. Paul set@pobox.com