On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a > > > blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > > > > name one > > dosym's old behaviour prevented a broken Vim release (upstream screwed > up a Makefile dependency) from getting into the tree unnoticed. Had > that happened after you changed some (but not all) of the do* > utilities, the duff symlinks would probably have gone unnoticed for a > while.
improper package testing that was saved by a dosym that did not create directories ... useful mayhaps, but not nearly enough to justify the proposed change > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install functions > > for no gain at all ... sounds like a no brainer to me > > No, I'm proposing that functions not have strange side effects. the behavior here is desired ... you install into a directory, then the directory should exist > Well no, they can't, because there are a whole load of ebuilds that > will break if they do that. But if it's introduced as mandatory > (barring ebuilds RESTRICTing it) for EAPI 1, the tree will slowly move > towards everything that reasonably can do having working test suites, > which will be a huge step forward for QA. that's really the QA's job to enforce, not the package manager if the QA team wants to spear head a tree wide effort at getting src_test up and running, they're certainly free to -mike
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