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 Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:58:52 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> posted
> 20080909003848.7bb5bbca@snowmobile, excerpted below, on  Tue, 09 Sep
> 2008 00:38:48 +0100:
> > 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.
> 
> I did mention package.provided, which is your PM provided tool...

If you consider package.provided to be your package manager provided
tool, you need a much better package manager. Paludis has 'importare'
for tracking (with full uninstall, upgrade, slotting and dependency
handling capabilities) manually built packages. I assume Pkgcore has
something similar.

> As Donnie said in his post made while I was composing mine, it's the 
> "entry level ebuild hack that just gets people in the door and is the 
> reason a lot of people love Gentoo."

Having to write an ebuild just to install something in a package manager
friendly way and be able to uninstall it cleanly later is a defect, not
a feature.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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