2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisał(a): > Hi everyone, > > It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in > ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to > indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some > type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git, mercurial, or svn. > > This new RESTRICT=live value would be useful in at least a couple of > ways. One is that it could be used to implement a @live-rebuild > package set that's based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [1]. It > could also be used to implement a more accurate LIVEVCS.stable check > in repoman, again based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [2]. > > We already have plans for more advanced live ebuild support, > including live update detection, that will involve an EAPI bump [3]. > However, the RESTRICT=live value is a simple enhancement that we can > add now, without the need for an EAPI bump. Thoughts?
The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its name should be negation of this feature. I think that something like RESTRICT=constant-sources would be better. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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