[gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability (Was: No more stable keywords for Games)

2017-11-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 20-11-2017 11:53:32 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello friends! > > On Monday, November 20, 2017, Sergei Trofimovich <[1]sly...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:47:35 -0600 > > R0b0t1 <[2]r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Understanding an existing codebase should not be a technical > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability

2017-11-20 Thread Benda Xu
R0b0t1 writes: > This is why I am surprised documentation is lacking for specific > projects, or, I suppose, any software package that has ever been > created. No surprise. There is always a gap between theory and practice. That said, I will prioritize myself to document the internals of Gen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability (Was: No more stable keywords for Games)

2017-11-20 Thread R0b0t1
Hello friends! On Monday, November 20, 2017, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:47:35 -0600 > R0b0t1 wrote: > >> Understanding an existing codebase should not be a technical >> challenge. I had to resort to reimplementing all of the steps myself, >> in part to understand if they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability (Was: No more stable keywords for Games)

2017-11-20 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:47:35 -0600 R0b0t1 wrote: > Understanding an existing codebase should not be a technical > challenge. I had to resort to reimplementing all of the steps myself, > in part to understand if they were done properly in the first place. Looks like you are an expert in this area

[gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability (Was: No more stable keywords for Games)

2017-11-19 Thread R0b0t1
Hello friends! On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > Greetings R0b0t1, > > R0b0t1 writes: > >> It is one thing to say that contributions to the main Portage tree >> require some standards to be upheld, but these standards do not seem >> to be applied consistently. For example, cross