Dnia 2014-01-25, o godz. 10:12:26 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On 01/23/2014 04:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:36:06 > > Chris Reffett <creff...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett > >>> <creff...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > >>> > >>>> After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional > >>>> dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in > >>>> net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up > >>>> with a cleaned up and expanded version of it, and I would like to > >>>> add it to eutils.eclass to provide a standard way of notifying > >>>> users of optional dependencies. The patch to eutils.eclass is > >>>> attached. > >>> > >>> This was discussed already: > >>> > >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72162 > >>> > >> First of all, this is a short patch for a function, not a full eclass. > > > > Ah, sorry, this changes *a lot*. Let's start the bikeshed again then, > > whatever. > > > I haven't looked at the implementation, but I wonder if we need a > function for such trivial stuff. Most maintainers deal with this problem > using pkg_postinst() einfo/elog messages. Why do we need a dedicated > function for that? Just for consistency reasons...? The intent of the original optfeature implementation was to provide users with nice, colorful '[installed]' messages whenever the optional dependency was installed. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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