On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage >> > need >> > to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this >> > really >> > even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really. >> > >> One's bug is another's feature. >> libc in uname is honestly WTF but this begs the real question: why >> doesn't portage (emerge and repoman to be specific) simply get the >> output of uname -a ? It's not written in C, you don't have to mess >> around with 5-6 fd's to get the needed data. >> >> And I think that this is both a design bug and a red herring. >> >> By the way, should I make a bug report with a patch to remove this issue? >> Making it selectable via FEATURES requires more digging around in portage. >> -- >> Andrey Vul >> >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> A: Top-posting. >> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? >> > > Maybe we should ask gentoo-dev? The reason not to use uname -a straight up > is because it forces portage to depend on coreutils. Portage ebuilds > currently do not depend on it unless userland_GNU is enabled. I'm split, I > prefer code to always be as easy as possible, yet I don't like unnecessary > dependencies. > I'm going to try and reverse-engineer uname and make it python-able. I just hope python<->C is much more simple than Java<->C (JNI is a complex, horrible, and ugly piece of bloat).
-- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
