On 01/23/2014 04:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:36:06 > Chris Reffett <[email protected]> napisał(a): > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett >>> <[email protected]> napisał(a): >>> >>>> After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional >>>> dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in >>>> net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up >>>> with a cleaned up and expanded version of it, and I would like to >>>> add it to eutils.eclass to provide a standard way of notifying >>>> users of optional dependencies. The patch to eutils.eclass is >>>> attached. >>> >>> This was discussed already: >>> >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72162 >>> >> First of all, this is a short patch for a function, not a full eclass. > > Ah, sorry, this changes *a lot*. Let's start the bikeshed again then, > whatever. > I haven't looked at the implementation, but I wonder if we need a function for such trivial stuff. Most maintainers deal with this problem using pkg_postinst() einfo/elog messages. Why do we need a dedicated function for that? Just for consistency reasons...?
-- Regards, Markos Chandras
