On Wednesday 14 December 2005 08:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:44:39 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until > | after several readers are written and force all of them become broken? > > Because there isn't a specification saying what the future changes to > Portage will be, so supporting said future changes straight off would > require a massively over-generalised, over-indirected solution.
newsdir="$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/metadata/news" newsdir="$(portageq newsdir gentoo)" Both have one level of indirection. The first has two hard coded elements. The first has one. Where is the massive over-indirection? The second allows future changes. The first does not. Where does the specification come into it? All that would be needed is to allow a user a method to name overlays and it'd be useful straight off the bat. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
