From: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:30:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2j6d2ed5bd1004162030mabb8134sf19feac0afeb04ad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100416212806.7bc6b307@snowmobile>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:23:48 -0400
> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>> OK. Let me rephrase. Portage does not need to validate local
>> changes.
>
> Sure it does. If it doesn't, and your local changes affect metadata,
> horrible things happen.
Why not check the mtime on the overlay, if it is older than last sync
time, not invalid.
>> If a user uses a local eclass to override one in portage or in some
>> remote overlay s/he follows, it is his/er responsibility to update
>> it when the original undergoes major renovation.
>
> Users aren't responsible...
And doing everything we can to make them not be isn't going to teach
them anything.
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh
>
Steev
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-17 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 11:11 [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass Torsten Veller
2010-03-30 15:48 ` Alec Warner
2010-04-03 10:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2010-04-01 23:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2010-04-02 0:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2010-04-02 0:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2010-04-02 0:17 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-02 0:25 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-06 14:22 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 18:39 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-12 17:17 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 17:30 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 18:00 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-12 22:55 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-16 20:00 ` James Cloos
2010-04-12 22:47 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-16 20:23 ` James Cloos
2010-04-16 20:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-17 3:30 ` Steev Klimaszewski [this message]
2010-04-17 7:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-18 3:28 ` James Cloos
2010-04-18 7:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-19 20:59 ` James Cloos
2010-04-19 21:46 ` Harald van Dijk
2010-04-23 15:14 ` James Cloos
2010-04-25 6:16 ` Zac Medico
2010-04-03 10:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2010-04-04 8:25 ` Michael Higgins
2010-04-06 14:27 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 14:52 ` Duncan
2010-04-10 0:40 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 14:25 ` James Cloos
2010-04-06 16:00 ` Michał Górny
2010-04-10 0:34 ` James Cloos
2010-04-17 20:07 ` Torsten Veller
2010-04-12 8:07 ` Christian Faulhammer
2010-04-12 9:03 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-20 6:49 ` Torsten Veller
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