Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-06-12

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:42:45 +0300
> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > When all there is required is dropping some "$@" to the Portage code
> > and be done with it, and have everything be in consistent format...
> 
> The question is not about the code, but about the design. Your design
> doesn't make sense: there's no direct correspondence between functions
> and phases, so it's not obvious where arguments to "default" get sent.
> 
> "default" is for the easy cases. If you're wanting to do something
> different, don't use it.

Also, default can be used as the starting point for a more complex
install. For example, you can call default, then once that returns,
modify the image by adding/removing/moving files, adding init scripts,
etc.

So I would also strongly disagree with a ban on calling default from the
install phase.

William

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