On 23:23 Wed 25 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:06:37 +0100 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > 10) dohard and dosed banned in EAPI 3 > > > > I think I missed the reasoning for removing these, particularly > > dosed. pybugz didn't see any open bugs. > > Portage doesn't merge hardlinks correctly, so dohard is bad. And > dosed's been considered deprecated for years.
I like dosed because I've used it many times for the $D-removing feature. If there was (is?) an automatic filter at install-time that scanned files to remove $D references, that would work for me instead. > > > 11) doinclude, newinclude for EAPI 3 > > > > Is installing to /usr/include by default useful for most packages > > that want to use this? Or would they /usr/include/${PN}? If you have > > to change it often, aren't you just as well off using insinto/doins? > > Should there be an "includeinto"? > > I'd be inclined to agree on that one, but people seem to be after more > of these do* things. I'm still not convinced this one adds anything significant beyond doins by default that it's worth adding. In half the cases (/usr/include/$PN/foo.h or anywhere else vs /usr/include/foo.h), you'd need to customize its install directory and so effectively are just running insinto/doins. Plus it's only useful for ebuilds that have a crappy install anyway, so wouldn't we rather fix the build system? > > > 21) REPLACING_VERSIONS and REPLACED_BY_VERSION in EAPI 3 > > > > I'm curious why it isn't global. Seems like it would make sense to > > put it near dependencies. Also I could be wrong, but wouldn't you > > want to be able to cache this and show smart pretend output, etc? > > I think you're misunderstanding what this is for. It's to allow > packages to work out whether they're upgrading / downgrading / > reinstalling / whatever, since Zac broke the devmanual-documented and > PMS-required way of doing it using has_version and refuses to revert it. Ah, I see. This is the first I'd heard about this anywhere (the problem or the proposal). So running has_version in setup/preinst and again in postinst doesn't do what you'd want anymore? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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