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I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a
completely worthless description (and even more set a mostly worthless
DESCRIPTION) which ends up contaminating the DESCRIPTION for an ebuild
when inherit is done after DESCRIPTION is set.
I realize that most of you will find this a little pedantic, however, I
find that needing to move my DESCRIPTION to below the inherit often
severely affects the readability of the ebuild, and all to avoid a
completely (or nearly) worthless DESCRIPTION from contaminating my
environment.
In my opinion, the text "# @DESCRIPTION" in an eclass is more than
enough for readability, and setting DESCRIPTION only serves to
contaminate the environment. The is especially true for the following
eclasses that set the DESCRIPTION from the subject:
ozzie eclass # grep 'DESCRIPTION="Based on the ' *.eclass
cannadic.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass"
confutils.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
embassy.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass"
eutils.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
games.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
gnatbuild.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
gnuconfig.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
libtool.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
linux-mod.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass"
nsplugins.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
perl-module.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the $ECLASS eclass"
qmail.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
toolchain-funcs.eclass:DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
Although these are the ones that make me the most unhappy, I see no
purpose for setting DESCRIPTION in any eclass as it really serves no
purpose to source the eclass then source the ebuild 0.01s later and
overwrite the DESCRIPTION. Fixing this is not difficult, unlikely to
affect anything, but will help avoid one tiny little annoyance that
really looks like a relic from a time long long ago.
Thanks for the consideration
- -Zero
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