The future of Gentoo ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Kövesdán Gábor <gabor.kovesdan at t-hosting.hu> (from Fri, 09 Jun  
2006 10:57:25 +0200):

> My idea is to repocopy and rename these ports like:
> emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage1 -> emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage1

Since you are introducing a new class of linux ports, I like to take  
the opportunity to ask for a bikeshed color...

We have a mix of naming styles. linux-foo, linux_foo and  
linux_foo-bar. Does it make sense to use an underscore here instead of  
a minus sign? Should we read it as 'this is a "linux dist" port of  
"gento" "stage1"', or should we read it as 'this is a "linux" port, it  
is a "dist"ribution of "gentoo" "stage1"?

The former is some kind of semantic-view, that later is more like a  
consistent naming scheme.

> This introduces a new group of ports (linux_dist*) that are complete
> linux environment for cross-development, etc. At the same time a

Sounds good.

> WITH_LINUXBASE macro should be added for installing them into
> ${LINUXBASE} and this requires a conditional CONFLICTS with another
> linux_base ports.

One of the first thoughts I had here is: via OPTIONS or not, what  
would be better? And if using OPTIONS, is it possible to still use  
CONFLICTS (evaluation order may be important here)?

But I think you will solve this problem. :-)

> If this has been accomplished, I also want to add then three metaports
> as emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage[123] for the old functionality,
> this would install the ports with WITH_LINUXBASE set, but these
> metaports can be set DEPRECATED without an EXPIRATION_DATE to just note
> that the use of these are discouraged.

There should be a comment explaining it near DEPRECATED then, so that  
a committer doesn't decides to axe those ports.

> Ideas and opinions from the lists are welcome!

Sounds good. The pkg-descr should be changed to a sensible explanation  
then. I try to come up with a good one for the default linux base port  
which mentions the differences compared to the linux_dist port then.

Bye,
Alexander.

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