Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 03 August 2003 13:34, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Sunday 03 August 2003 9:27 pm, George Shapovalov wrote:
> As a new developer, I've been told repeatedly that lintool is not worth
> using. Heck, it even says that in the Ebuild howto on the website, iirc.
and
>Warning: Be warned - lintool is very broken. Use repoman instead.

Sure, don't use lintool *instead* of repoman (just trying to clarify so that 
nobody will take my words out of context (Stuart: not directed at you 
personally, as I am sure you understood what I meant ;))). However I still 
find lintool quite usefull for a basic ebuild composition checks, it seems to 
catch a bit more of those. 

I would say use both, with repoman taking precedence where they contradict 
(although I never saw this happen). I usually run ebuilds through lintool 
first (you *will* get few false errors/warnings, so you need to know the tool 
and the policy :)) and when everything ready run repoman on a dir..
Although clearly use of lintool *is not required* anymore..

George



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