Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:20:15 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> > What proportion of people do you think know whether or not you need
> > a die with econf or emake?
> 
> This is a valid point as well.  However, for a user simply concerned
> with getting a functional ebuild so the package is tracked by the PM
> as opposed to not (or manually tracking with package.provided), an
> extra die or two, or even the lack thereof, and the docs and stuff,
> don't matter as much as something easily understood and written with
> little more than knowledge of bash and what's easily cribbed from a
> few existing ebuilds used as samples.

People shouldn't be writing ebuilds to do that at all. They should be
using a package manager provided tool that lets them keep track of
ebuild-less packages in a way that integrates properly with everything
else.

> What's more worrying from the perspective of that person is that
> while all these new vars are optional, if devs (with that
> pre-knowledge) start using them as easier, pretty soon that person
> above isn't going to have any easily accessible simple ebuilds to
> crib from any more.

Sure they will. There'll still be a significant number of ebuilds that
fall somwwhere between "easy enough to handle with the defaults" and
"horrid complex mess".

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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