On Tuesday 19 June 2012 17:35:00 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:02:40 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i've noticed a growing trend where people put setup of variables into
> > pkg_setup that only matter to src_* funcs presumably so they don't
> > have to call the respective src_* func from an inherited eclass.
> > unfortunately this adds pointless overhead to binpkgs.  can we please
> > move away from this practice ?
> 
> Like this?

not quite

>  * ERROR: cat/pkg-version failed (prepare phase):
>  *   python_set_active_version() can be used only in pkg_setup() phase
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *     ebuild.sh, line   85:  Called src_prepare
>  *   environment, line 5885:  Called python_set_active_version '2'
>  *   environment, line 5603:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *           die "${FUNCNAME}() can be used only in pkg_setup() phase";
>  *
> 
> Shouldn't that be in src_prepare already, or does python.eclass do
> something rather important here while installing a binpkg?

Gentoo's python integration is an ugly beast.  in this case, i believe it's 
screwing with your $ROOT which means it has to be in pkg_* (let's quietly 
ignore what happens if you try to emerge two ebuilds which need conflicting 
versions of python active).
-mike

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