From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcpSy-0002ux-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:44:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E96FE04B5; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4BAE04B5 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C4867F00 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:44:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.302 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.302 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.230, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nEB-kRYC68FE for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CE367B21 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KcpSY-0003gp-S5 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:43:50 +0000 Received: from 91.85.182.210 ([91.85.182.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:43:50 +0000 Received: from slong by 91.85.182.210 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:43:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:38:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.85.182.210 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 3ba00147-63b3-4ac4-8b65-0aed042352f4 X-Archives-Hash: 98e31f03614ca1bc60a490735e5eaea2 Vaeth wrote: > The point is that in contrast to shell code you need additional > pre-knowledge to read or write it. > True. >> the syntax looks fine and the syntax is in fact still bash. > > I do not want to start a discussion now whether this is > implicit semantic or sort of an extended syntax - it depends on the point > of view. But in any case it involves new (and actually redundant) > "keywords" in the ebuild. > Yes it's "extended syntax" if you like. > The knowledge needed to write or read ebuilds should be kept > as small as possible. Agreed. This is similar to the "make it look like as much like a from-src build as possible" argument. I would question just how much of a burden this adds to the knowledge required to write an ebuild, however.