Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sunday 24 May 2009 23:22:21 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:16:13 +0200 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Okay, yes, Mr. Long was quite rude there (trying to fight fire with > > fire I guess). But in this case you're discussing rather subjective > > things again (how often is it the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:16:13 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Okay, yes, Mr. Long was quite rude there (trying to fight fire with > fire I guess). But in this case you're discussing rather subjective > things again (how often is it the case that you don't have a cache?) > that might not even be a prob

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-05-17 18:20:21 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napisał(a): > I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of > bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds. > > I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to implement > (adjustin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sunday 24 May 2009 22:43:52 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Here, this sums up what's wrong with most of your cockamamy ideas (as > > attractive, and oh so right, as they may seem to you now): > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s07.html > > > > To paraphrase you: Go and read it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:31:56 +0100 Steven J Long wrote: > > ...but that's not what happens. Instead, the users get their screen > > spammed with annoying messages, > > Er I think you're confusing paludis and portage. Er. No. As you would know had you read GLEP 55, Portage is noisy if you use bash

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-24 Thread Steven J Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:57:49 +0200 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> > We always have to assume that there might not be an up to date >> > cache. The Gentoo rsync mirrors do not always ship up to date cache, >> > particularly if someone's just changed a wide

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

2009-05-21 Thread Duncan
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis posted 200905211957.55040.arfre...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 21 May 2009 19:57:49 +0200: > 2009-05-20 20:00:43 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): >> On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:56 +0200 >> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> > This error occurs on