On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:49:16 +0100 Tiziano Müller <dev-z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pPAJXP6shYH78lCXeqRqCUQ
Here're some more easy ones. First up, un-optionaling some optional things. No impact for developers: * PROPERTIES must be cached properly (it's optional in current EAPIs) * DEFINED_PHASES must be supported (ditto) Next, some probably easy but long standing features: * src_test run unless RESTRICTed or explicitly disabled by the user (bug 184812) * have econf run ./configure with --disable-dependency-tracking and --enable-fast-install (bug 211529) * Limit values in $USE to ones in $IUSE (bug 176467). The existing behaviour's majorly annoying; time for the package manager to start enforcing things strictly. Some things we should probably sort out: * The list of extensions for unpack probably needs a couple of new things. * Provide ebuilds a way to differentiate between updates and removals (bug 205557), since the way devmanual says to do it got broken by a non-EAPIed change. This one's slightly trickier than initially apparent, because a solution's needed for the weird cases. One example is if you have foo-1:1 and foo-2:2 installed, and you're installing foo-2:1. In this case, it's both a reinstall and an upgrade. One possibility is a REPLACING_VERSIONS variable that contains a list of all versions being replaced, along with a REPLACED_BY_VERSION variable for the pre/postrm part. Not sure if these can go in in time for Portage or not: * Utility commands, even the ones that aren't functions, should die. To get a non-die version, prefix the command with nonfatal (e.g. 'nonfatal dodoc README', which just returns non-zero on failure rather than splatting). * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs to use this. * pkg_info should work on things that aren't installed, as well as things that are. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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