From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:54:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426CF693.7090109@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504251343.52450@zippy.emcb.local>
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Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category and
> per-package eclasses, the idea being that each category, and each package,
> could have it's own 'eclass' subdirectory containing category- or
> package-local eclasses. This in addition to having global eclasses in
> gentoo-x86/eclass.
>
> For example (totally hypothetical), the php-sapi* eclasses would be a primse
> example of a category-local eclass (their only used by the PHP SAPI ebuilds).
> I can't find any eclasses that exist currently that'd be a good example of a
> local-eclass, but hopefully you get the idea.
>
> Thoughts ? Anything I've missed ciaranm ? :)
I like the idea. cron.eclass would definitely fit in sys-process/eclass/
(although could we move existing eclasses anyways?).
I definitely see an advantage to package local eclasses (any package with a
non-trivial build system). All non version-specific stuff could be kept there.
- --
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides
Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 12:43 [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses Elfyn McBratney
2005-04-25 13:08 ` Dan Meltzer
2005-04-25 12:27 ` Marius Mauch
2005-04-25 13:35 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-04-25 13:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-26 0:49 ` Marius Mauch
2005-04-26 0:50 ` Brian Harring
2005-04-26 8:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-25 13:54 ` Aaron Walker [this message]
2005-04-25 14:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-25 14:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-25 14:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-25 14:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-25 14:33 ` Elfyn McBratney
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