* Peter Stuge <[email protected]> schrieb:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib.
> > Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really
> > broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they
> > also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets
> > fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!)
> > and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure
> > "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code.
>
> I agree that this is a deficiency, and that there should instead be
> an explicit dependency on what is effectively an external package.
>
> But usually this is easy to fix in an ebuild.
In this case it's not fixable from ebuild side. Takes a larger
rewrite of the source code (guess what: they dont even have a
proper way of versioning/tagging in gnulib ;-o)
I'm currently in process of doing that rewrite in the oss-qm project:
git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/coreutils.git
git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/gnulib-src.git
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