From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3PD8DeO026149 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:08:14 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1740430wra for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:08:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TwS966ECW4If6YOVmAcbD7D5qW8KmnXfnYWrpubW+J3NDk7SaKwdq3oX8l0rkB8TFCbrb4YqlghDST+MVBfv0uSC8UL+qFJVpElfGK+63hQ8nwdOAmazly3ucHIm8Bk/bvW5pTDraz+shNIOPLoV4h018q2+Amb7lTKfhDW5OrY= Received: by 10.54.105.14 with SMTP id d14mr1833781wrc; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.42.40 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46059ce10504250608421915ff@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:08:18 -0400 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses In-Reply-To: <200504251343.52450@zippy.emcb.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200504251343.52450@zippy.emcb.local> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j3PD8DeO026149 X-Archives-Salt: a9286f01-6d6e-4c0f-a423-e192765f03fe X-Archives-Hash: b9addf4b8d1430dc7b1cb48936bc2c16 I can see the use for a category one, but I can see no point for a package-local one, if you're going to have it specific for one package, why not just put it in the ebuild, and have no eclass at all? On 4/25/05, 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 ? :) > > Best, > Elfyn > > -- > Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ > beu/irc.freenode.net http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ > +------------O.o--------------------- http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/pubkey.asc > > PGP Key ID: 0x69DF17AD > PGP Key Fingerprint: > DBD3 B756 ED58 B1B4 47B9 B3BD 8D41 E597 69DF 17AD > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list