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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function
  @ 2014-01-25 10:12 99%       ` Markos Chandras
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From: Markos Chandras @ 2014-01-25 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 01/23/2014 04:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:36:06
> Chris Reffett <creffett@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> 
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>> On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett
>>> <creffett@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>>
>>>> After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional 
>>>> dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in 
>>>> net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up
>>>> with a cleaned up and expanded version of it, and I would like to
>>>> add it to eutils.eclass to provide a standard way of notifying
>>>> users of optional dependencies. The patch to eutils.eclass is
>>>> attached.
>>>
>>> This was discussed already:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72162
>>>
>> First of all, this is a short patch for a function, not a full eclass.
> 
> Ah, sorry, this changes *a lot*. Let's start the bikeshed again then,
> whatever.
> 
I haven't looked at the implementation, but I wonder if we need a
function for such trivial stuff. Most maintainers deal with this problem
using pkg_postinst() einfo/elog messages. Why do we need a dedicated
function for that? Just for consistency reasons...?

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras


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