-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 21/11/15 06:29 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > Probably not the ideal solution given that you seem to prefer > removal of such variables, but a REPODIR variable which is set to > the directory where the repo is (basically making PORTDIR dynamic > and setting it on a per package basis) could enable developers > to reference their repo when needed, allowing variable use in a > multi repo system. Additionally, if that idea is liked, I think > an array of the repos masters and/or their dirs (or some > functions to access that information) could also be useful. Like > get_masters and get_repo_dir functions. >
- From your description here REPODIR would only point to the current repo, so for licence-file access when the license is in the main gentoo repo, but the current repo is an overlay, it would still fail. Similar cases could occur for eclasses, especially since 'masters' in repo metadata allows multiple repos to be chained. All told, I think i'm in favour of banning the variables, and potentially providing getter functions that would output the path of these files if they need to be accessed -- '$(get_eclasspath [name])' or $(get_licensepath [name]) or the like. I don't know if these could be implemented in-eclass or if they would be something that would have to be added to EAPI7..? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlZRAu4ACgkQAJxUfCtlWe1r4wEA3bnt0LtExuJCFTFMzZfzoTgl q+T0eEPvKw0HK3De9rsA/iZZlZ0VKBTErx7mXk4YjiykN9Ruk/ZswkDDSGWM29IW =JEGh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
