On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:30:31 +1200 Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Just an idea that seemed obvious enough and obviously missing. Sounds like a great way to discourage people from contributing even further. I'm going to say that developers leaving mess in their FILESDIR is rather a pathological case, so why does everyone need to suffer for their carelessness? And even then, stale files are a minor nuisance compared to the cost of maintaining redundant list of all files. Not to mention that the size of the lists will easily exceed size of the stale patches. Then, some eclasses access FILESDIR directly, and do magic if some files exist in there. Not saying it's anywhere close to sanity -- just that people do it. Finally, the same though occurred to me as to ulm. People will forget to update the variable. They will forget to update it when adding, and they will waste their time on build that is going to fail somewhere at doinit in the end -- how nice is that? Then, they will forget to update it when removing and the file will be kept stale. Any solution you can try to invent to solve those problems, or make the system any more friendly, is actually making it more complex, harder to comprehend and even more costly. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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