public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
@ 2012-06-20 20:25 Richard Yao
  2012-06-20 20:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 68+ messages in thread
From: Richard Yao @ 2012-06-20 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

Here is my wishlist for EAPI 5:

Multilib (and/or multiarch) support
Automated epatch_user support
Parallel make checks
POSIX Shell compliance

Here are some explanations:

Multilib (and/or multiarch) support
	The current binaries cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a
user does not want to upgrade something. I had this problem with WINE
and glibc because I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy() fiasco on my
systems. This situation would have been avoided entirely if the package
manager supported multilib.

Automated epatch_user support
	Users should be able to test patches without modifying their ebuilds.
This also saves developer time because we don't need to navigate the
portage tree (or an overlay), make a change and test it. We could just
dump the patch in the appropriate directory and build.

Parallel make checks
	As it stands, `make check` is so slow that few people actually run it
and QA suffers as a result. We have the ability to do parallel checks,
but we need to explicitly put `emake check` into the ebuild and use
autoconf 1.12 to get that. It would be best if this behavior were the
default, not the exception.

POSIX Shell compliance
	There has been a great deal of work done to give the user full control
of what is on his system and there is more that we can do there. In
particular, I think a lean Gentoo Linux system should be able to use
busybox sh and nothing else. That requires POSIX shell compliance.
OpenRC init scripts support this and the configure scripts support this.
The few exceptions are bugs that are addressed by the Gentoo BSD developers.
	As such, I think we should make EAPI=5 use POSIX shell by default. If
an ebuild requires bash, we can allow the ebuild to declare that (e.g.
WANT_SH=bash), but that should be the exception and not the rule.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 68+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2012-06-29  5:30 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2012-06-20 20:25 [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 Richard Yao
2012-06-20 20:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 20:50   ` Richard Yao
2012-06-20 20:54     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 21:02       ` Richard Yao
2012-06-20 21:10         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 21:05       ` Richard Yao
2012-06-20 21:12         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 21:34           ` Richard Yao
2012-06-21  8:29     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-06-21  9:23       ` Richard Yao
2012-06-22  0:38       ` Richard Yao
2012-06-22  5:30         ` Duncan
2012-06-22  5:55         ` Michał Górny
2012-06-22  6:20         ` Ben de Groot
2012-06-20 21:43   ` [gentoo-dev] " Justin
2012-06-21  6:08     ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-21  7:00       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-21  7:25         ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-21  7:39           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23  7:53             ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23  9:38               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23  9:53                 ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-23 10:24                   ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 10:30                     ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 10:31                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 11:05                       ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 11:14                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 11:38                           ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-23 11:37                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 11:52                               ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-23 11:59                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 12:16                                   ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 12:21                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 12:11                               ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 12:16                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 12:33                                   ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-23 10:37                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-06-23 10:43                   ` Duncan
2012-06-23 10:44                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23 11:12                     ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-23 23:09                       ` Duncan
2012-06-21  9:27           ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2012-06-21 12:04             ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-23  8:19             ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-21 11:15           ` Patrick Lauer
2012-06-21 11:37             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-23  8:01             ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-21 12:11         ` Homer Parker
2012-06-21 12:30           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-21 13:13             ` Homer Parker
2012-06-21 13:20               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-21 20:26                 ` Homer Parker
2012-06-21 22:46                   ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-29  5:27           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-29  5:29         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-21  6:41     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-21  7:24       ` justin
2012-06-21 12:14         ` Homer Parker
2012-06-21 12:38           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 20:39 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-06-20 20:41   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-20 20:51   ` Richard Yao
2012-06-29  5:20   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-20 20:52 ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-20 21:33 ` Alec Warner
2012-06-21  9:42   ` Ben de Groot
2012-06-29  5:25 ` Mike Frysinger

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox