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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HcO17-0002zU-KX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:48:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3DFk6uF020604; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:46:06 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3DFgi4N015783 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:42:44 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427FE8D344 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:40:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10757-06 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35F78D31D for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:40:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:42:38 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April) Message-ID: <20070413164238.462f4c28@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <461FA381.3010605@gentoo.org> References: <20070401092940.1B4C26441E@smtp.gentoo.org> <20070413142116.d6d00c8b.genone@gentoo.org> <20070413153842.6089a449@snowflake> <200704131053.39321.vapier@gentoo.org> <461FA381.3010605@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_0G9xXpOSeyvcTnyoYBymqSC; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: ec4e1583-0a9c-4960-8cbd-214c46013e07 X-Archives-Hash: 9fde36d4beaef0c45618505cbb32b338 --Sig_0G9xXpOSeyvcTnyoYBymqSC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:36:33 +0200 Jakub Moc wrote: > Mike Frysinger napsal(a): > >>>> * Remove automatic directory making for do* > >>> No > >> It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a > >> blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > >=20 > > name one > >=20 > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install functions > > for no gain at all ... sounds like a no brainer to me >=20 > +1, this is a horrible idea that would just cause loads of bugs > impossible to check for in advance What? No it wouldn't. It would ensure that bugs were caught during the src_install phase rather than after a package has been installed. >, major work for lots of people Again, no. > and major bloat for no good reason. What? No it wouldn't. Very few things rely upon the automatic directory creation behaviour. We know this because we have Paludis warning us when it's used... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_0G9xXpOSeyvcTnyoYBymqSC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGH6Tw96zL6DUtXhERAoS9AJ43jX30d4maQvXsZnmxrV7qK1w9uQCfQlJL X7odKYtCTDlrI6EYITdTBRE= =IuyC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_0G9xXpOSeyvcTnyoYBymqSC-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list