-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Huddleston skrev: > I've recently updated opengl-update to use the eselect framework. I > think the team has done a great job as it was extremely easy to port the > bash script to an eselect module. However, when I placed it in the > portage tree, it sparked a little bit of a policy discussion between > myself and the core eselect devs on how to best include modules in the > tree, so I'd like to let other devs chime in as well. > > Firstly if you don't know what eselect is, check out: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/index.xml > > The eselect developers want to keep all eselect modules in their svn > repository and distributed through a single package (app-admin/eselect). > Their main reasons for this are better QA and less overhead for releases > and merging. > > I have a problem with this policy because: > 1) Stability of the modules should not be tied to stability of the core > package. Basically, I'd like to determine when my modules get pushed > into stable without considering how it'll effect the eselect modules of > other developers. Similarly, I don't want bugs in another module > holding up my module from going into stable. > > 2) Not all users will want all modules. The goal of the eselect project > is to provide a framework to replace java-config, motif-config, > gcc-config, binutils-config, opengl-update, etc, but not all users will > need all modules. > > 3) Some modules require extra files (opengl-update installs header > files, gcc-config installs a wrapper, etc), and the app-admin/eselect > package is not the correct place to provide these files. > > Also, what should the correct way to introduce these modules into > portage? > Should we keep them in the packages they're replacing > (x11-base/opengl-update)? > Should we place them in a new package in the same category as the script > they're replacing (x11-base/eselect-opengl)? > Should we place them in app-admin/eselect-<module name> or perhaps > app-eselect/<module name>? > > Note that for backwards compatibility in all cases, > x11-base/opengl-update will RDEPEND on this eselect module and install a > backwards-compatible frontend to the eselect module until all packages > in portage have been updated to use the eselect module instead. >
Any plans on moving webapp-config as an eselect module? :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDGzt+O+Ewtpi9rLERAiZgAKDAzrI29bEbUoVKdji4r9vaZOFFcwCdGbfo rXlfU7yQb6qvpuMj2BR806Y= =d86l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
