From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>,
pacho@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] greadme.eclass
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:10:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufrz5442f@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93425f77-7995-4040-9b4f-243216dcf42b@gentoo.org> (Florian Schmaus's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:30:28 +0100")
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>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> On 10/01/2024 14.58, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> Looks like readme.gentoo-r1 already gives you control over this:
>> # If you want to show them always, please set FORCE_PRINT_ELOG to a non empty
>> # value in your ebuild before this function is called.
>> # This can be useful when, for example, DOC_CONTENTS is modified, then, you can
>> # rely on specific REPLACING_VERSIONS handling in your ebuild to print messages
>> # when people update from versions still providing old message.
> It is easy to forget setting FORCE_PRINT_ELOG, just as it is easy to
> forget to unset it again.
> An automatism is always preferable over a manual solution.
Maybe I want manual control? For example, when I fix a typo in the
README file then I don't want to show it to users again.
>>> Just to clarify: you are agreeing that excluding the readme doc from
>>> being compressed is fine?
>> Please respect the user's compression settings there. IMHO
>> overriding
>> them with docompress -x is a big no-no.
> Then why does "docompress -x" exist at all?
Short answer, because some upstream programs access these directories
and cannot cope with compressed files there.
Long answer, see the previous discussion on this list [1] and in
bug 250077 [2].
> There seems to be a big win-win if we override the compression
> settingin this case.
I tend to disagree. We shouldn't override users' choices unless
absolutely necessary.
Ulrich
[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2fd5f58132881ef69219c126a525bce3
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/250077
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-06 17:01 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] greadme.eclass Florian Schmaus
2024-01-06 17:01 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] greadme.eclass: new eclass Florian Schmaus
2024-01-06 17:21 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] greadme.eclass Michał Górny
2024-01-09 8:30 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 8:39 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] greadme.eclass: new eclass Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 8:39 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] add UNPACKER_NO_BANNER variable Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 8:39 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] greadme.eclass: set UNPACKER_NO_BANNER Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 11:23 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] greadme.eclass: new eclass David Seifert
2024-01-09 11:30 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Improve readme.gentoo-r1.eclass Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/4] readme.gentoo-r1.eclass: display readme if content changed (or fresh install) Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 15:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-02 15:48 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-06-02 16:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-02 17:48 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 17:51 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-06-02 18:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-04 15:15 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-04 17:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-04 18:28 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-04 18:33 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-06-04 18:40 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-04 18:37 ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-06-04 18:59 ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-06-02 16:16 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/4] readme.gentoo-r1.eclass: use _GREADME_TMP_FILE in existing code Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/4] readme.gentoo-r1.eclass: add readme.gentoo_stdin() Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 4/4] readme.gentoo-r1.eclass: add readme.gentoo_file() Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 15:25 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Improve readme.gentoo-r1.eclass Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-02 16:12 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-06-02 16:40 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-06-02 17:34 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 9:59 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] greadme.eclass Michał Górny
2024-01-09 10:39 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-09 10:43 ` Michał Górny
2024-01-09 10:47 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-10 11:04 ` Sam James
2024-01-10 13:23 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-10 13:58 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-01-10 14:30 ` Florian Schmaus
2024-01-10 15:10 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2024-01-10 15:54 ` Florian Schmaus
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