Vaeth wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Having to write an ebuild just to install something in a package manager
friendly way and be able to uninstall it cleanly later is a defect
No, this is exactly what ebuilds meant for: That the package manager
keeps track of your package, and possibly also
Duncan wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
Having to write an ebuild just to install something in a package manager
friendly way and be able to uninstall it cleanly later is a defect, not
a feature.
I've always rather liked that I can tell someone in -dev-help or -chat If
you can
Ben de Groot wrote:
It may be 2 lines less, but it is 42 characters more.
Plus, I dislike caps. :-p
Well the original patch used DEFAULT_CONFIG_ENABLE and DEFAULT_CONFIG_WITH
and didn't invoke any subshells. I'm not sure what the thinking behind
changing it was, unless it was a straight lift
Vaeth wrote:
The point is that in contrast to shell code you need additional
pre-knowledge to read or write it.
True.
the syntax looks fine and the syntax is in fact still bash.
I do not want to start a discussion now whether this is
implicit semantic or sort of an extended syntax - it
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 08 Sep 2008
23:13:25 +0100:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:33:50 -0700
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the great things about ebuilds is that they're very natural to
write in most cases, if you can
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:20:15 + (UTC)
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What proportion of people do you think know whether or not you need
a die with econf or emake?
This is a valid point as well. However, for a user simply concerned
with getting a functional ebuild so the package is
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Sep 2008
00:38:48 +0100:
People shouldn't be writing ebuilds to do that at all. They should be
using a package manager provided tool that lets them keep track of
ebuild-less packages in a way that
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:58:52 + (UTC)
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Sep
2008 00:38:48 +0100:
People shouldn't be writing ebuilds to do that at all. They should
be using a package manager provided
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Sep 2008
02:06:45 +0100:
If you consider package.provided to be your package manager provided
tool, you need a much better package manager. Paludis has 'importare'
for tracking (with full uninstall,
