Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for enhancement to PMS/EAPI7+

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 18 May 2016 04:07:07 +0100
"M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:

> I've just been party to a discussion over in the Proxy Maintainers
> channel .. and the subject of correct ways to install documentation
> popped up. It seems to me rather quirky, that there is no middle ground
> in (for example) EAPI6 to have the default documentation installed per
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-144003r4 , PLUS maybe
> another folder or file(s). The existing framework ONLY allows *either*
> /only/ the default documentation *or* an override through the DOCS=
> variable.
> 
> My idea thus, was inspired by the simple bash DOCS+= ( ) statement, that
> would allow you to append files/folders to the installdocs list,
> assuming that DOCS was pre-populated with an existing set of files.
> Obviously the status quo is set for EAPI6 and algorithms defined, but
> wondered if it could be considered for a future update/improvement cycle?!

How is this going to work? In order to pre-populate it, you need to
know the list of files. And the list of files isn't known until
src_install(). In fact, with the current behavior it's not even known
before einstalldocs is actually called, and changing that could break
stuff.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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