On Saturday 02 July 2005 14:43, foser wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:33 +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > > calling a function in a global scope is a bad idea. it leads to lots of > > > unneccessary (and timely) computations > > > > Necessary in the case of kde split ebuilds. Take a look at > > kde-functions.eclass::deprange(). > > So you create functions to do things portage really should do ? Wouldn't > pushing the portage team to finally implement a major feature like > depranges be a better idea ? They said a major feature like dep version ranges would never be in a stable portage 2.0.x, so I wrote deprange() as a temporary stop-gap measure because there was no other feasible way to write the split kde ebuilds. The request is in bug 33545.
Maybe I didn't push them enough :-/ > > The gnome team has been dealing with these things forever, but we have a > preference for a global solution instead of inventing our own wheel. I've a preference for that too, I just wasn't up to writing a patch for portage at the time. Maybe I should try to do that now, depending on their answer to my new comment in 33545... -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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