Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 08:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: >> > I've already stated my preference for not doing *anything* outside of >> > merging packages in the stages. >> With respect, this is a little confusing. I didn't get past the learning >> curve for catalyst, but it's clearly not the same as simply merging >> packages, or you wouldn't need a special tool. > > The tool does things like setting up the chroot. The code run by > catalyst to get a stage3 from a stage2, not counting things like chroot > setup, is "emerge -e world" just like going from a stage2->stage3 by > hand. Anyway, you don't really need to understand it, as I do, and > vapier does. If you're really interested, learn a bit about catalyst. > Uninformed opinions help no one. > So I don't need to understand it do understand the argument, or I do? Thanks for conceding that it does a little bit more than merging packages, in any case. >> It seemed to me that a clean, *simple* solution which would work for any >> future packages that might also need this functionality was proposed. Why >> not just use it? It's only one command, and the standardisation would >> mean users could rely on the mechanism for system recovery. > > Uhh... what does adding "emerge --config" have to do with catalyst? > There's nothing stopping vapier/anyone from adding the emerge --config > steps to the ebuilds. I simply said that I'm not wanting to add code to > run those to catalyst for the reasons I have already stated. In no way > does that impact the usefulness of the config code for end users. It > only affects what goes into the stages. > Well clearly it's affected at least one user (or was it a dev; it doesn't matter does it really?) who stated it affects others. If vapier's solution of adding *one* command line to catalyst doesn't fulfil the user requirement, could you state how?
>> Or am I missing some deeper technical implication? > > Yup. > Great. What exactly? How does fulfilling the user requirement with vapier's solution mess up catalyst? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
