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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice.
From:       Dan Naumov <jago () telefragged ! com>
Date:       2002-08-17 16:48:46
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:30:37 -0700
Jeremiah Mahler <jmahler@pacbell.net> wrote:

> But suppose someone did want an ebuild for the hourly CVS snapshots?
> How should it be named?

My personal belief is that ebuilds of hourly CVS snapshots should never leave the \
PORTDIR_OVERLAY of the original author. IMHO, Gentoo Portage is no place for \
autogenerated, untested CVS stuff. How are you going to go around non-compiling \
snapshots of broken trees and new compile options that appear from time to timw \
anyways ?

Ebuilds should be writted for things that are "set in stone" and don't go around \
changing on an hourly basis. You really don't want to have 2 users run "emerge blah" \
and get different versions of the same program, even though "emerge -u rsync" was run \
at the same time. This would be a horrible mess (which is currently the case with \
QuakeForge ebuild).

Sincerely,
Dan Naumov aka Jago
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