* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] gentoolkit.git repository reorganized
@ 2015-10-30 5:39 99% ` Michał Górny
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From: Michał Górny @ 2015-10-30 5:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Brian Dolbec; +Cc: gentoo-portage-dev
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:06:33 -0700
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:37:26 -0400
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > On 22 Oct 2015 12:54, Paul Varner wrote:
> > > Mike, I know you're busy with other stuff, but if you ever want to
> > > see a new gentoolkit/gentoolkit-dev release, consider this your
> > > authorization to just do it. The README.dev files state how to
> > > make releases.
> >
> > thanks, i think this will help a lot
> >
> > > Since, the tools have dwindled down in gentoolkit-dev, I do think it
> > > does make sense to keep it in the same repo and merge the packages
> > > together behind a USE flag. I will revert the commit, that emptied
> > > the genttolkit-dev branch and ask mgorny to nuke the new
> > > gentoolkit-dev repository.
> > >
> > > As I get time, I will work towards moving the gentoolkit-dev tools
> > > into gentoolkit and putting them behind a USE flag in the ebuild.
> >
> > i'm no distutils expert, and every time i try to do something "fancy",
> > i get frustrated by the module :). do people know of examples where
> > you can do optional installs with a flag ? a cookbook sort of entry
> > here would help and i could take care of merging in say ekeyword.
> > -mike
>
> Have a look at layman's setup.py. It parses IUSE to set the installed
> files via setup.py. It may not be the best method, but it does work.
>
> The layman ebuild sets deps acording to the ISUE flags and setup.py
> sets the installed modules on the python side.
Sorry, what?! That's a huge QA violation. There is *NO* guarantee that
USE will be exported. In fact, it is only exported because of poor
design inside Portage that could result in the variable getting lost
otherwise.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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