From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmKJj-0003xz-7O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:16:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBE0FepX013799; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:15:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBE0BPn2013203 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:11:25 GMT Received: from jj039137.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([211.4.39.137] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EmKEu-0006ny-Da for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:11:24 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E279201A4A; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:11:51 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:11:51 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512140844.39644.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051213235450.63dbd021@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051213235450.63dbd021@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512140911.51446.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0fbb6240-2608-4306-906a-3532d2e27341 X-Archives-Hash: e7f365d00d9ee9c5dc3ff101a2c38474 On Wednesday 14 December 2005 08:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:44:39 +0900 Jason Stubbs > > wrote: > | Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until > | after several readers are written and force all of them become broken? > > Because there isn't a specification saying what the future changes to > Portage will be, so supporting said future changes straight off would > require a massively over-generalised, over-indirected solution. newsdir="$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/metadata/news" newsdir="$(portageq newsdir gentoo)" Both have one level of indirection. The first has two hard coded elements. The first has one. Where is the massive over-indirection? The second allows future changes. The first does not. Where does the specification come into it? All that would be needed is to allow a user a method to name overlays and it'd be useful straight off the bat. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list