On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:02:00 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > These fail: > > > > cp somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > mv somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > ln -s somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > dohard somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > mkdir dirdoesnotexist/newdir > > > > This succeeds: > > > > dosym somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > any other obvious statements you care to make ? > > compare your standard handwritten Makefile install: target to > src_install() in an ebuild ... i'll take the much shorter > src_install() any day
Except that we already know that it doesn't make a substantial difference to the lengths of src_installs in the tree. Very few packages are relying upon the automatic directory creation. > > The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're > > trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because > > there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't > > lead to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in > > future EAPIs is an easy way of helping arch teams achieve this goal > > without breaking anyone's system in the meantime. > > if you have a problem with the QA team then complain to your buddy spb Er, no, I'm explaining why enforcing src_test for EAPI 1 will be helpful for an awful lot of Gentoo developers. Please refrain from that kind of comment. It doesn't help anyone. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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