From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5560 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Aug 2003 22:16:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7495 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2003 22:16:03 -0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 15:15:55 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308022229.12533.vapier@gentoo.org> <200308031327.26379.george@gentoo.org> <200308032135.01978.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308032135.01978.stuart@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308031515.55688.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds X-Archives-Salt: a120fdc2-5c48-412b-b0fb-783530f3abd1 X-Archives-Hash: 631e388210c265a0cbd0135f98c2fdb2 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list