On Sat, 7 May 2005 10:31:49 -0500 Kito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Isn't going to work. A lot of these changes need package-specific | > knowledge that most people just don't have. | | If a dev doesn't have adequate knowledge for a particular package he | shouldn't be fscking with it in the first place. So there said package | can sit, having only the ability to install to / just like it always | has until someone with interest/need/knowledge comes along and takes | care of it.
You and I know that. Brian seems to be assuming that the people that do the work will know how to handle every single package in the tree. | All the points you are making sound like the result of too much crisis | management, progress shouldn't be impeded by fear of work or change. Eh? No. It's about getting a major change done cleanly and without causing another disaster of OSX-sized proportions. | > No, they're a demonstration of why the GLEP in its current form is | > inadequate. I'll carry on pulling up further examples until you | > realise that it's not just a minor issue, it's a huge problem that | > needs a big change to the GLEP. | | How about suggesting what that big change would be? I've done that already several times in this thread. | > The reason that this thing was written up as a GLEP was because the | > author was trying to bypass the discussion and get around having to | > fix various flaws that had been pointed out previously. | > | > | Could you break it down to "if I'm going into home, I need xyz at | > | the home level rather then global/usr" ? | > | > Hrm. Being able to say "I need xyz installed globally, and abc | > installed | > either globally or at home level" would work if and only if there | > was a way of finding out where abc and xyz had been installed. | | Hmmm, what about a possible extension to the world file or a create a | new file to store metadata such as the package installation prefix. Needs to be easily accessible from the ebuild. Parsing things in bash is a nuisance. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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