Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reinstating eclasses

[Christoph Mende <angelos@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:15:25 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:43:55 -0500
> Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Christoph Mende wrote:
> > > Now the most logical name for an eclass like that
> > > would be xfce4.eclass, except that eclass already exists.
> > 
> > Since the new eclass is not version specific, how about simply
> > "xfce.eclass"?

Well, the desktop is usually called Xfce4, plus that'd match gnome2...
and more or less kde4

> why bother introducing yet another xfce*.eclass when you can re-use an
> existing one?
> 
That's what I want to do :P
We currently have xfce4.eclass, xfce42.eclass and xfce44.eclass. 42 and
44 are obviously versioned, 4 isn't, but isn't nearly compatible with
my new one, partly because it was used (and probably exclusively
written) for 4.2.

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Christoph Mende
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Lead and Release Engineering
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