>>>>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:49:03 -0500 > Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 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..?
The more I think about the idea of having a LICENSEDIR containing
symlinks, the less I like it. It would add the overhead of creating
the dir to all ebuilds, whereas it would be used in a handful of cases
only. Also the symlinks won't be permanent, so postinst messages like
"read the license at ${LICENSEDIR}/GPL-2" cannot be used, unless the
ebuild would follow the link (e.g. using readlink) which seems clumsy.
So IMO a function like get_license_path is the better solution here.
> And if I understand your idea correctly, get_licensepath would still
> not work for binary packages.
Is there a scenario where LICENSEDIR would work, but the function
would not?
Ulrich
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