Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

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On 20:26 Mon 09 Mar     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:49:16 +0100
> Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pPAJXP6shYH78lCXeqRqCUQ
> 
> Here're some more easy ones.

This list sounds mostly good to me.

> * Limit values in $USE to ones in $IUSE (bug 176467). The existing
>   behaviour's majorly annoying; time for the package manager to start
>   enforcing things strictly.

I really like this one, and I've wanted it for a wihle.

> Not sure if these can go in in time for Portage or not:
> 
> * Utility commands, even the ones that aren't functions, should die. To
>   get a non-die version, prefix the command with nonfatal (e.g.
>   'nonfatal dodoc README', which just returns non-zero on failure
>   rather than splatting).

Sounds useful to have less '|| die' all over the place.

> * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, unless
>   --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs to use
>   this.

Why?

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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