On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:33, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:47 +0100, Alexander Mieland wrote:
> > if I understand the policies and some devs correctly, this would
> > also be not good, to make this all in the basc-ebuild. Or am I
> > wrong?
>
> If your application requires it, then I don't see how it would be
> breaking any policies.

well, until now basc also requires to copy the emerge.log, but this 
breaks the policies.

> Personally, I would have the compile done in a pkg_config function and
> have the ebuild simply display whether the function needed to be run
> or not based on the existence of the file.

can you tell me, how this should look like in the ebuild, before I again 
get flamed because I've released an ebuild which is against all policies 
or whatever...?

> > And btw, I don't want to install this reference-package then (bash
> > in this case). It only should be a benchmark to get an accourate
> > compiletime which depends on the power of the used machine.
>
> Then don't install it.  You can have the ebuild do pretty much
> whatever you want, you know.
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