[gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Petteri Räty]

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I suggest that we dedicate the next bugday in March to migrating as many
built_with_use calls to use dependencies as possible. Actively
maintained packages should have mostly been migrated by now and in
general it's better for the user experience to get rid of all those
built_with_use calls instead of waiting for the unmaintained/slacking
parts of the tree to get migrated.

Suggestions/objections?

Regards,
Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Carsten Lohrke]

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On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Suggestions/objections?

If you mean by "mass migration" doing that more or less blindly, I do object. 
When an ebuild directly or indirectly inherits an eclass, which is EAPI 2 
enabled, like base.eclass, while another isn't, you have to expect 
side-effects. See for example media-tv/kdetv-0.8.9-r1, which features an 
empty src_prepare to prevent the attempt to apply patches twice, temporarily.

So the first step is to get all eclasses EAPI 2 ready and even then I wouldn't 
rule out odd cases, so changes should happen in testing and revised ebuilds 
exclusively to assure odd cases get caught.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Tomáš Chvátal]

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Dne neděle 22 Únor 2009 22:34:19
> Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Suggestions/objections?
>
> If you mean by "mass migration" doing that more or less blindly, I do
> object. When an ebuild directly or indirectly inherits an eclass, which is
> EAPI 2 enabled, like base.eclass, while another isn't, you have to expect
> side-effects. See for example media-tv/kdetv-0.8.9-r1, which features an
> empty src_prepare to prevent the attempt to apply patches twice,
> temporarily.
>
> So the first step is to get all eclasses EAPI 2 ready and even then I
> wouldn't rule out odd cases, so changes should happen in testing and
> revised ebuilds exclusively to assure odd cases get caught.
>
>
> Carsten
Well that is the reason why i am first eapi2ing the kde eclass. I was really 
suprised when i saw kde3 ebuilds with eapi2 :(
The smalest problems i can spot in the first place are:
1) not working PATCHES array
2) double configure script run.

So i agree that we have to doublecheck every eclass and eapi2fy them in first 
place.

Tomas

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Carsten Lohrke]

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On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Well that is the reason why i am first eapi2ing the kde eclass. I was
> really suprised when i saw kde3 ebuilds with eapi2 :(

I value users suffering from package manager issues higher and fix issues as I 
see them, walking through the tree. Only a handful of ebuilds are affected. 
Identifying and adjusting them, when the modified eclasses hits the tree is a 
quick operation.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Petteri Räty]

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Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Suggestions/objections?
> 
> If you mean by "mass migration" doing that more or less blindly, I do object. 
> When an ebuild directly or indirectly inherits an eclass, which is EAPI 2 
> enabled, like base.eclass, while another isn't, you have to expect 
> side-effects. See for example media-tv/kdetv-0.8.9-r1, which features an 
> empty src_prepare to prevent the attempt to apply patches twice, temporarily.
> 
> So the first step is to get all eclasses EAPI 2 ready and even then I wouldn't 
> rule out odd cases, so changes should happen in testing and revised ebuilds 
> exclusively to assure odd cases get caught.
> 
> 
> Carsten

Yes of course not without testing the packages. The point here was also
that if you are maintaining something do the change yourself before the
next bug day. Even if the eclasses are not EAPI 2 ready you can work
around it in the ebuild by for example those empty functions.

Regards,
Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Carsten Lohrke]

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On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Even if the eclasses are not EAPI 2 ready you can work
> around it in the ebuild by for example those empty functions.

This is fine with me, when you care for said packages and their eclasses and 
know for sure such hacks have a very limited lifetime. Otherwise it's likely 
to rot in the repository for ages.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

[Petteri Räty]

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> I suggest that we dedicate the next bugday in March to migrating as many
> built_with_use calls to use dependencies as possible. Actively
> maintained packages should have mostly been migrated by now and in
> general it's better for the user experience to get rid of all those
> built_with_use calls instead of waiting for the unmaintained/slacking
> parts of the tree to get migrated.
> 
> Suggestions/objections?
> 
> Regards,
> Petteri
> 

I will be doing a category or two I am involved with. If you want to
join in the fun, come to #gentoo-bugs and claim a category or two.

Regards,
Petteri


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