On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 21:22 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I think the idea of ebuilds as scripts showing directly how to build > software is a core part of the Gentoo build-system philosophy. This > proposal pushes ebuilds toward a formatted file that is not a script. > Instead, it is more like an Ant XML file that more abstractly describes > a build. I think this is the wrong direction for ebuilds because they > should directly resemble how software is built by hand.
Fully agreed here, "keep it simple software". Even if there are slightly more bits to write in the ebuilds. /haubi/ -- Michael Haubenwallner Gentoo on a different level
