On 17:29 Wed 14 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 02:16:41PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 19:14 Tue 13 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:02:28PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > On 17:56 Tue 13 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > useful enough for EAPI ? or should i just stick it into > > > > > eutils.eclass > > > > > ? OR BOTH !? > > > > > > > > I prefer to avoid EAPI whenever possible, as it just makes things > > > > slower > > > > and more complex. > > > > > > Exactly the wrong approach; it winds up with master > > > repositories/overlays cloning the functionality all over the damn > > > place. > > > > Why are people cloning anything if it's in eutils.eclass in gentoo-x86? > > There are more repositories than just gentoo-x86, and overlay is *not* > the only configuration in use.
Who else besides you is using any other configuration? Should we really give a crap about the 0.001% population with some weird setup when we're trying to improve things for the 99.999% one? > In the old days of the PM only handling a single overlay stack, what > you're suggesting would be less heinous- heinous in detail, but > pragmatic in reality. These days it's a regressive approach- > requiring everyone to slave gentoo-x86 isn't sane, nor is avoiding > eapi (resulting in people having to duplicate code into each > repository stack). I don't know many people who aren't using gentoo-x86 or a repo that pulls in changes directly from it. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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