NP-Hardass posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 as excerpted: > "adopt-a-package" type program. In functionality, this is no different > than proxy-maintenance, however, this codifies it into an explicit > policy whereby users are encouraged to step and take over a package. > This obviously requires a greater developer presence in the proxy-maint > project (or something similar), > but, personally, I think that a stronger dev presence in proxy-maint > would be better for Gentoo as a whole.
That gave me the idea of a maintainer-needed eclass. When packages are set to maintainer-needed, they can simply inherit this eclass and add whatever function to the pkg_postinst, that will add a message that will in effect say "adopt-me please", probably printing a proxy-maintainer invitation URL to go to for more information. Talking about pkg_postinst messages, unless I missed it there's no simple way to add a one ATM, without coding up the whole function, making it problematic for eclasses, etc. For EAPI-7, what about either a helper function that can be called, or an array variable that can be simply added to, that simply adds the supplied message to a list of messages printed at pkg_postinst time, and of course an appropriate default_pkg_postinst to go along with it? Then ebuilds and eclasses can call this helper or set this var in whatever phase they need to, and the message will be printed at pkg_postinst time without having to worry about setting up your own pkg_postinst or stepping on anything pkg_postinst related setup elsewhere. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
