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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 4/4] sync: Add backwards compat with SYNC_{UMASK,USER} variables
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 01:04:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54841813.8060203@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141207092207.7070d75c@pomiot.lan>

On 12/07/2014 12:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2014-12-06, o godz. 23:15:09
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> 
>> On 12/05/2014 04:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Support SYNC_UMASK and SYNC_USER variables that were used in Funtoo
>>> Portage, as fallbacks to sync-umask and sync-user repo keys.
>>> ---
>>>  pym/portage/package/ebuild/_config/special_env_vars.py |  2 +-
>>>  pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py                   | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>  pym/portage/repository/config.py                       | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Why should we add backward compatibility code for something that was
>> never supported in the master branch?
> 
> I just thought it wouldn't hurt if we're backporting features.

Adding extra code for new redundant variables seems undesirable. Are
they somehow better than using equivalent repos.conf [DEFAULT] settings
for sync-user and sync-mask?
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-07  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06  0:03 [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/4] sync: sync-umask and sync-user support Michał Górny
2014-12-06  0:03 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/4] sync: allow overriding sync-umask for the repository Michał Górny
2014-12-07  6:46   ` Zac Medico
2014-12-07  9:00     ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] " Michał Górny
2014-12-06  0:03 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 2/4] sync: allow overriding sync-user " Michał Górny
2014-12-07  7:02   ` Zac Medico
2014-12-07  9:01     ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] " Michał Górny
2014-12-07  9:07       ` Michał Górny
2014-12-07 18:32         ` Zac Medico
2014-12-08  6:53       ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2014-12-06  0:03 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 3/4] sync: ensure sync_{umask,user} is respected when creating repo Michał Górny
2014-12-07  7:10   ` Zac Medico
2014-12-06  0:03 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 4/4] sync: Add backwards compat with SYNC_{UMASK,USER} variables Michał Górny
2014-12-07  7:15   ` Zac Medico
2014-12-07  8:22     ` Michał Górny
2014-12-07  9:04       ` Zac Medico [this message]
2014-12-07  9:06         ` Michał Górny
2014-12-07 18:33           ` Zac Medico
2014-12-07 18:39             ` Michał Górny

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