Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 16:21 +0200, Jeroen Roovers a écrit : > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:03:23 +0200 > Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Since you are proposing this, a side question is: > > Why should we write SRC_URI in ebuilds if that info is now available > > in metadata.xml ? (granted that we might still want to keep > > over-riding this information in ebuilds)
I was not suggesting to erase SRC_URI from all ebuilds but for things that have well defined rules like gnome packages, defining SRC_URI is mostly a useless excercise. 5) The inversion of your question: Why should we start handling SRC_URI > outside ebuilds and eclasses? Or, how would that be practical, > advantageous, an improvement on the current situation. > I will add against my own question that eclasses currently handle this (see gnome.org eclass) very well. So maybe there is nothing to debate here :)
