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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation
From:       Brian Harring <ferringb () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-10-21 9:08:17
Message-ID: 20111021090817.GA30010 () localhost
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:47:55PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into 
> mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent.  the first step 
> is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated 
> eclass.  this makes it trivial for people externally to override the 
> functionality and hook into whatever craziness they want.
> 
> eutils.eclass will inherit this new eclass directly (for the foreseeable 
> future), so there's no need for tree-wide update bonanzas.

Whatever the eclass name, the API it exports should be controlled 
carefully so that when g27 lands, we can just swap the functionality 
directly in- just have the eclass watch for a magic value 

Either way, sounds good.
~brian

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