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
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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]
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2011-12-03 22:52 ` Leho Kraav
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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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2011-12-04 22:08 ` Leho Kraav
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