From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S6MlT-0001NU-W0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:55:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B5CDE0804; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264D0E0678 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so1485304wib.10 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:54:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=BK558XzouLe4GHR0IUW+lByrnbHqOAi+pPhoSK03TgQ=; b=1JNxUyDa8DYxBauwmqSdKSZuVJr6xtfaFxmZkHU3rXRD8G/GPrDsSwjBRyYd7tCPBK VvEKAaJ0eGpsmvbX6O7fddJnpFHvb2TBb5i1cih3L9kb1WoYaMPtOn6G5CrfRE6VjG54 OAbOL15Jyrdt+oZYOOtNytRn/JmAydP1j5IEW7BJoz7BXqDlB2lbTVhkELFve09YkFJ1 FLXpApyKpZb41F9/m+5ol6ab6UlfMund80xM3zW26Pt7aus5lETHWQ5gQ6pkqbDj0Ejx kd/I4mYioOA94WZOYwGcqY6yzcUn0VHJgL4IYEfhmemhW/1C9GrrMaF82B+ry94jQYp4 Ifyw== Received: by 10.180.83.72 with SMTP id o8mr13184783wiy.5.1331387672244; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fl2sm26602211wib.4.2012.03.10.05.54.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:54:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:53:21 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Message-ID: <20120310135321.531348b5@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20311.51166.725757.212932@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20312.24445.451487.577826@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120308094222.GA21435@lisa.schiffbauer.lan> <4F58DEC1.7080003@gentoo.org> <20120308163555.526d5e81@googlemail.com> <4F58E746.7040608@gentoo.org> <20120308171458.0d3af7cb@googlemail.com> <20120308183047.07006494@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/OozYmV8HtjRZ3ChnQJXg3FY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: af0a927f-ecb5-4581-b076-2878f0c4a4ac X-Archives-Hash: 0ee3d0995421dbfcefbc841dfeaa8308 --Sig_/OozYmV8HtjRZ3ChnQJXg3FY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:06:49 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > > HOMEPAGE =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Package's homepage. If you are una= ble to locate an > > official one, try to provide a link to freshmeat.net or a similar > > package tracking site. Never refer to a variable name in the string; > > include only raw text. >=20 > I'm not sure if that is a good example of "things that are weird like > EAPI" >=20 > You can set HOMEPAGE in an eclass for instance, using anything you can > do with bash and build it out of substrings. >=20 > perl-module.eclass does just that. >=20 > [[ -z "${HOMEPAGE}" ]] && \ > HOMEPAGE=3D"http://search.cpan.org/dist/${MY_PN:-${PN}}/" >=20 > Not really comparable in entirety to EAPI. The point is that there's a silly QA policy saying not to do that. It's not a PMS rule. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/OozYmV8HtjRZ3ChnQJXg3FY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9bXNQACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGGQACgxHdwYcKIV1kOi9lgIagFB3RQ FgQAn1k9yaCk8KmFQu2kezpEQuMj6ZFC =gpqv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/OozYmV8HtjRZ3ChnQJXg3FY--