From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] evar_push/pop helpers
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:45:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306170145.19923.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130602094817.786a879d@TOMWIJ-GENTOO>
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On Sunday 02 June 2013 03:48:17 Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 03:29:33 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > except you aren't handling edge cases (like set vs unset)
>
> You've got me there, though this is quite an exception; I don't see
> why we have to introduce something that's barely used...
>
> `qgrep -eH '^\s*\bset\b' | wc -l`
> yields 150
>
> `qgrep -eH '^\s*\bset\b' | sed 's/:.*//g' | sed
> 's/\/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$//g' | sort -u | wc -l`
> yields 34
>
> Only 34 packages, and do these all _really_ need a 'set'? I doubt it.
i've got at least 4 consumers in mind, and that's more than enough imo to
implement it right than half-ass it every time
> > > Much like fixing tiny bug and trying to
> > > avoid checking whether anything else is affected.
> >
> > yeah, because forcing specific behavior for an entire function is
> > always the correct answer. it's like telling people to export
> > LC_ALL=C in make.conf so they never hit locale related problems.
>
> Actually, bug wranglers stopped asked for English build logs because
> setting LC_ALL=C ended up breaking things.
i know it doesn't work which is why i was providing it as an example
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-02 3:03 [gentoo-dev] evar_push/pop helpers Mike Frysinger
2013-06-02 6:51 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-02 7:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-02 7:16 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-02 7:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-02 7:48 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-17 5:45 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2013-06-02 8:39 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-02 15:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-02 15:57 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-06-02 7:33 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-02 17:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-17 5:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-17 16:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-17 5:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2013-06-17 17:51 ` Greg KH
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