Re: [gentoo-dev] PKG-INFO (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)

2009-04-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:29:11 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:08 +0300 > > Petteri Räty wrote: > > > Ok. So people should then be using has_version in pkg_info if they > > > want to detect if it's installed

Re: [gentoo-dev] PKG-INFO (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:08 +0300 > Petteri Räty wrote: > > Ok. So people should then be using has_version in pkg_info if they > > want to detect if it's installed or not? > > If they absolutely totally need to detect that, then

Re: [gentoo-dev] PKG-INFO (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)

2009-04-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:08 +0300 Petteri Räty wrote: > Ok. So people should then be using has_version in pkg_info if they > want to detect if it's installed or not? If they absolutely totally need to detect that, then yes. Generally pkg_info should just try to display as much useful informatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] PKG-INFO (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)

2009-04-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Still trying to stick to one subthread per item here. > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:27:41 +0300 > Petteri Räty wrote: >>> * PKG-INFO >> query. I have probably missed what's the use case for non installed >> packages? > > For some packages, when a bug report for a failed bui

Re: [gentoo-dev] PKG-INFO (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)

2009-04-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Still trying to stick to one subthread per item here. On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:27:41 +0300 Petteri Räty wrote: > > * PKG-INFO > > query. I have probably missed what's the use case for non installed > packages? For some packages, when a bug report for a failed build is submitted, there are a load