Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:06:42 +0200
Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Err, your suggestion was:
> 
> * Remove automatic directory making for do*

Because I was giving a one line summary, rather than a description of
the full change. The full description has been discussed elsewhere
several times.

> So, yeah I really fail to see the point of doing stuff like this:
> 
> -dobin foo
> +dodir /usr/bin
> +dobin foo

Which was not what was being discussed.

> > If anyone really *is* relying upon dosym to create a directory,
> > rather than having it happen by accident, adding in a dodir
> > beforehand when switching EAPIs is easy, and will prevent
> > accidental directory creation.
> 
> And who will wade through the entire tree and check for such stuff?
> You?

Uh. What. There's no need to do that. That's the whole point of
sticking it in at an EAPI change.

When people switch an ebuild's EAPI, they test it. That's required
anyway because EAPI changes various behaviour options. Ebuilds whose
EAPI isn't switched aren't affected.

> >> If the Makefiles suck, file bugs upstream instead of dumping the
> >> stuff on Gentoo users.
> > 
> > It's not the users that will see this. It's developers. The only
> > time it will fail for users and not developers is when something's
> > broken anyway, and that's far better than ending up with a broken
> > install.
> 
> Well of course it's the users who will see it, see above. It's not
> like that we would have 100 volunteers around to drop everything they
> have in their hands a go spend days on changing ebuilds that are not
> broken just because of this idea.

Explain in more detail how users will see it please.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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