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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies
From:       James Le Cuirot <chewi () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2015-04-28 20:37:31
Message-ID: 20150428213731.2ae36fe5 () symphony ! aura-online ! co ! uk
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 03:38:09 -0600
Ryan Hill <rhill@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:25:20 +0100
> James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:10:30 +0200
> > Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Tuesday 07 Apr 2015 20:41:05, Pacho Ramos wrote :
> > > > Wouldn't be possible to show a repoman warning when a
> > > > dependency on any dev-java/${PN} doesn't specify a SLOT? That
> > > > would save of from forgetting this in some years ;)
> > > > 
> > > Chewi suggested a similar solution in #gentoo-java. How do we get
> > > started with contributing to repoman?
> > 
> > The change I intend to make is not to repoman but
> > java-utils-2.eclass where there is already a check to ensure that a
> > dependency has been added, it just doesn't check the SLOT at the
> > moment. It outputs an error message by default but dies if you have
> > JAVA_PKG_STRICT set, which all Java devs should do.
> 
> I just got this warning and had to do some digging to figure out
> where it came from and what it wanted me to do. Can you add a comment
> to the eclass (maybe a link to your mail which explained things well)
> and a pointer to the eclass in the message?

Done! :)

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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