From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:45:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96D8A2.7060902@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20120424T162043-366812422Z@orbis-terrarum.net>
On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
>> log from #gentoo-portage: <tampakrap> zmedico: (random idea) would
>> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or
>> somewhere in /var, but out of the tree?
> Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced
> by USE flags in metadata.xml for several years now.
>
euse from gentoolkit still uses it since it is written in bash and XML
parsing in bash can be problematic. We really need to get euse
rewritten in python so it can use the portage and gentoolkit API's
before we get rid of the file.
Additionally, if we move the file, euse will need to be updated as well
and get pushed out to a stable version of gentoolikit.
The euse rewrite is on the roadmap for gentoolkit-0.3.1 which doesn't
have a release date yet since the primary contributors have been busy
with other things.
Regards,
Paul
PS: The gentoolkit overlay
(http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gentoolkit.git;a=summary)
is open to all Gentoo developers. The only requirement for committing
to the gentoolkit branch is to pick up any pieces if you break
something. Note: the gentoolkit-dev branch has tighter restrictions and
access to it is controlled by idl0r.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 14:11 [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 14:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 14:45 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24 14:59 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-04-24 15:06 ` Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 16:21 ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-04-24 16:45 ` Paul Varner [this message]
2012-04-24 17:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 20:05 ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-25 6:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-25 15:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-28 1:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
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