On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:19 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Should we add multiple inheritance support now? The changes
necessary to add this support are minimal and we can have this
feature in portage-2.1.2 [3], which I estimate will be ready for a
final release in approximately 3 to 5
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Thanks for your feedback, everyone. I've gone ahead and enabled
multiple inheritance in portage-2.1.2_pre2-r7. I would appreciate
it if people would start experimenting with it (of course, please
don't use multiple inheritance in the live tree in
Zac Medico wrote:
(of course, please
don't use multiple inheritance in the live tree in ways that will
hurt users of the current single inheritance profiles).
If someone does, can we blame you? :)
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Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
(of course, please
don't use multiple inheritance in the live tree in ways that will
hurt users of the current single inheritance profiles).
If someone does, can we blame you? :)
Don't blame the tool, blame the tool using the tool improperly.
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On Saturday 07 October 2006 23:04, Zac Medico wrote:
Should we add multiple inheritance support now?
yes
-mike
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Hi Zac,
On 10/8/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm only proposing that we add support to portage now because it
seems like it will be useful in the future. How and when people
make use of this support does not concern me much.
Zac
I believe that multiple parent support would be
Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 12:05 schrieb Stuart Herbert:
Hi Zac,
On 10/8/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm only proposing that we add support to portage now because it
seems like it will be useful in the future. How and when people
make use of this support does not concern me
Danny van Dyk wrote:
I for one favour a more flattened profiles/ and a way to mark a profile
as 'not standalone', similar to a deprecated file, that isn't inherited,
to stop users biting their own asses. The following sample is not
complete, but should give the right impressions.
By 'not
Zac Medico wrote:
Some of you may recall that I proposed the addition of multiple
inheritance to profiles a couple of months ago [1]. The idea is to
extend the parent file in profiles so that it supports any number
of parents (one per line). Parents listed closer to the bottom of
the file will
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Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Are you proposing just adding the support or creating the new profiles
as well? If it's just the support, adding it into portage now certainly
won't hurt anything (unless someone really fscks up the current
single-parent
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Alec Warner wrote:
I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between
screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to
trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out
there; then I'd be more for a change like that.
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 07:28 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Alec Warner wrote:
I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between
screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to
trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the
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Brian Harring wrote:
Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544),
stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing
from the most current release media still can get bit
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:59:48PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
Brian Harring wrote:
Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544),
stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing
from the most current release media
Zac Medico wrote:
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Brian Harring wrote:
Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544),
stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing
from the most current release media
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:01:41 -0400
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
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Brian Harring wrote:
Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544),
stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
Hasn't even yet made
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Alec Warner wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like
this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the
upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the
Zac Medico wrote:
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Alec Warner wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like
this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the
upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of
Alec Warner wrote:
I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between
screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to
trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out
there; then I'd be more for a change like that. The problem is last
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
| it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
| only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent
| file (only 1 is
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
| it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
| only need to
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
| it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
| only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:11:25 -0400 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| wrote:
| | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
| | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:11:25 -0400 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| wrote:
| | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
| | it's easy to enable
Alec Warner wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
You can get the best of both worlds using straight MI, if the profile
tree is structured properly. Use the existing hierarchy for the 'main'
profile and mixins (nodes with no parent) as extras. The only problem
with this is Portage's current reliance
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be
| strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anymore.
Uh, that's easily solved. Demand that anyone changing non-arch profile
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Alec Warner wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be
| strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anymore.
Uh,
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:24:49PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
Hi everyone,
Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent
file (only 1
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
This is pretty much exactly what Kumba was talking about. I didn't like
the idea simply because it allowed the user to shoot themselves in the
foot way too easily. It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles
wouldn't be strictly controlled by the arch teams and
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