On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:14 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Realistically I assume you're taking the stance "EAPI gets in the >> > way, lets do away with it"- if so, well, out with it, and I'll >> > dredge up the old logs/complaints that lead to EAPI. >> >> I see EAPI as a nice thing for standardizing features that are >> implemented in the PM so they work identically across portage, >> pkgcore, and paludis. But I don't think that implementing things in >> the PM when they could go in an eclass is automatically the best >> choice. It dramatically slows down the speed of iteration, >> prototyping, and bug fixing. > > What is more important is that it takes the code further from devs. > I like to see the code I use, and be able to do anything about it if > necessary. Not to see a spec and three different implementation, of > which two use random hacks which I can't do anything about unless I > start to implement PM-specific anti-hacks in my code.
Just as an aside, every package mangler in Gentoo is open source. I don't see why you can't 'see' the code it is using. Now you might say 'ahhh C++ makes my eyes bleed' (as an aside, go read versionator eclass ;p) or 'eww portage is ugly' but every time I hear it I am less convinced that it is a good excuse. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny >
