From: Dror Levin <spatz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please don't turn this into a pissing match. (was: pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:58:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2w2becdd071004011158t7caaa532t926c4e184ff1737b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401183216.04e0753e@snowmobile>
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 20:32, Ciaran McCreesh <
ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In that case, why would you like to see VALID_USE as well as
> pkg_pretend? Why not just use pkg_pretend, which is already in EAPI 4
> and which can do everything VALID_USE can do plus several useful things
> that it can't?
>
> With pkg_pretend you can do VALID_USE using a simple eclass...
>
With pkg_pretend you can also implement USE deps, would you like to abolish
them as well? This is data and should be treated as such. Using code to
describe it is possible but suboptimal, if there's a suggestion that allows
for describing this as data rather than with code then it is superior for
all the reasons already stated.
Dror Levin
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 17:23 [gentoo-dev] Please don't turn this into a pissing match. (was: pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative) Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-01 17:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 18:58 ` Dror Levin [this message]
2010-04-01 19:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-02 13:26 ` Ben de Groot
2010-04-02 21:15 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
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