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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:08:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111021090817.GA30010@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110201647.55931.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:47:55PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into 
> mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent.  the first step 
> is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated 
> eclass.  this makes it trivial for people externally to override the 
> functionality and hook into whatever craziness they want.
> 
> eutils.eclass will inherit this new eclass directly (for the foreseeable 
> future), so there's no need for tree-wide update bonanzas.

Whatever the eclass name, the API it exports should be controlled 
carefully so that when g27 lands, we can just swap the functionality 
directly in- just have the eclass watch for a magic value 

Either way, sounds good.
~brian



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-21  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20 20:47 [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation Mike Frysinger
2011-10-21  1:37 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2011-10-21  9:08 ` Brian Harring [this message]
     [not found] <hO7IS-2JR-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-12-03 22:52 ` Leho Kraav
     [not found] <i46IO-6A-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <i46IO-6A-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-12-04 14:44   ` Leho Kraav
2011-12-04 17:12     ` Mike Gilbert
2011-12-04 17:56     ` Zac Medico
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     [not found] ` <i4lya-8ax-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <i4lya-8ax-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-12-04 22:08     ` Leho Kraav

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