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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:26:29 -0400
From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage
>> > need
>> > to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this
>> > really
>> > even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really.
>> >
>> One's bug is another's feature.
>> libc in uname is honestly WTF but this begs the real question: why
>> doesn't portage (emerge and repoman to be specific) simply get the
>> output of uname -a ? It's not written in C, you don't have to mess
>> around with 5-6 fd's to get the needed data.
>>
>> And I think that this is both a design bug and a red herring.
>>
>> By the way, should I make a bug report with a patch to remove this issue?
>> Making it selectable via FEATURES requires more digging around in portage.
>> --
>> Andrey Vul
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>
> Maybe we should ask gentoo-dev? The reason not to use uname -a straight up
> is because it forces portage to depend on coreutils. Portage ebuilds
> currently do not depend on it unless userland_GNU is enabled. I'm split, I
> prefer code to always be as easy as possible, yet I don't like unnecessary
> dependencies.
>
I'm going to try and reverse-engineer uname and make it python-able. I
just hope python<->C is much more simple than Java<->C (JNI is a
complex, horrible, and ugly piece of bloat).
--
Andrey Vul
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?