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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:26:41 +0200
From: Reinis Danne <rei4dan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] [PATCH 00/10] alternatives-2.eclass updates
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:04:56AM -0800, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Reinis Danne <rei4dan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have cleaned up a bit alternatives-2.eclass to make it easier to review.
> > Also if someone knows any shortcommings of this eclass as it is, then point
> > it out, I'll try to address them.
> >
> > I hope this can be soon moved to the main tree thus closing the divide
> > between
> > science overlay and portage tree.
> >
>
>
> Your changes are mostly minor and only apply to the eclass, so I have no
> comments. You should commit them to the overlay, code reviews on the github
> review panel are more practical than on the mailing list.
> One important thing the creation of eselect modules could be done directly
> from eselect rather than the eclass, keeping the eclass much more simple,
> and allowing users to create their own providers easily. I may work on it.
> I had some local changes of eselect and I added the repo [1] to the github
> gentoo-science, that you can test by unmasking eselect-9999.
How the eselect module creation could work? Something like this?
~# eselect module create blas
~# eselect blas add atlas importance src dest [src dest [..]]
...
~# eselect blas remove atlas
~# eselect delete blas
>
> Known issues of the alternatives framework:
> * when having more than 1 provider, updating a package that provided the
> eselected provider, will not re-eselect the same provider unless it was the
> first on the list
Fixed by "alternatives-2.eclass: Fix check for uninstalling".
> * possible residual orphan files
Haven't observed any after my patch series applied.
> * given the number of bugs, we should keep the linking to the reference
> names libraries, so we could eselect providers without re-compiling all
> reverse dependencies. We could do this in the open sourced providers by
> changing the soname of the libraries we compile, and in the binary ones
> (mkl,amcl...) with a link script generated library.
Yes, this is ok and AFAICT it is like that now in the overlay.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/gentoo-science/eselect
>
> Sebastien