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On 06/04/2012 10:06 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:26:00 +0200 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> But minetest in sunrise for example which has two different
>> repos, one for the engine, one for the data. It's currently split
>> in two, but I guess I will merge those soon.
> 
> Why? Is there a good reason to merge two repos into one ebuild?
> Does upstream guarantee that the releases will always be synced?
> Does it benefit users?

In this case yes. They are released with the exact same tags as you
can see in those ebuilds.

> 
>> It would also enable me to use gtk-youtube-viewer and
>> youtube-viewer in one ebuild with vcs-snapshot eclass while
>> adding a gtk useflag (currently split too). Otherwise I will have
>> to fix it on my own again.
> 
> Once again: does it benefit user? Or just does it imply that
> starting or stopping to use gtk part requires user to rebuild the
> whole thing?

Eclasses do not benefit any user. They benefit developers. I would
simply do similar stuff on my own in the ebuild instead of using
vcs-snapshot eclass then.

> 
>> I find the logic very clear:
>> 
>> SRC="https://my/github/shit -> ${P}.tar.gz" results in
>> ${WORKDIR}/${P} and SRC="https://my/github/shit ->
>> ${P}-src.tar.gz" results in ${WORKDIR}/${P}-src
> 
> I really don't mind the logic. I'm just aware that it is a little
> late to introduce such a destructive change, especially that you
> yourself mentioned that it will break existing ebuilds.

So? We fix it.

> 
> I will be happy to implement it if you can get more approval for
> that change. Or else we should consider jumping with the eclass to
> -r1 while it isn't widespread too much.
> 

I don't see the point in bumping it, because it's not widespread.
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