Mark J. Nelson wrote:
- I'm not at all convinced that we want any incorporation at all for
the 'extra' packages. But, I can't articulate well why right now.
Should I leave it or take it out? I don't really like the thought
that a package is arbitrarily unconstrained as a function of a legal
or political boundary, rather than a technical one.
You can leave it and we can see if anything pops up, but it wouldn't be
a legal or political boundary, it's a delivery-based one. Extra
currently doesn't have packages delivered with every build -- it has
ones which work with a selection of releases. That could change of
course, and probably will. That said, IIRC, there's currently no
example of repository-spanning incorporations, and I don't know what the
issues might be.
- For the depend-on-incorporation, I was thinking pkgmogrify would
get a directive that said "if you see this pattern, *add* this
new action" rather than transform the existing action. (Multiple
matches would just add multiple of the same new action.)
This would be a significant RFE to pkgmogrify: it would violate the
1:1 input to output line constraint. Currently, a transform may
change only the current action, and no other.
With some clear caveats, I don't think it's that major, but we can skip
it for now and come back to it later if there's any other cause to do so.
- Extensive shell syntax in the makefile does make me nervous. What
about users who use csh and its derivatives?
Like me? :) I have tested this with tcsh as a user shell, and can do
others if folks want. ISTR John running into an issue with something
like that a while back, with one of the (thankfully) temporary hacks.
John, what shell do you use?
zsh, I'm fairly convinced. Good to know it's already tested with a csh
derivative too.
liane
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