Re: Making DESTDIR support mandatory

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:55:06PM -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> Aleksej Saushev writes:
> > Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
> > 
> > > we are not at the point that only 127 packages in the main tree don't
> > > support DESTDIR. I want to make it a required feature now and mark
> > all
> > > remaining packages explicitly as BROKEN after the branch.
> > 
> > I think this is plain wrong. You can't replace some packages that don't
> > support staged installation now, e.g. all older gcc, nagios packages,
> > and ghc.
> > Unfortunatly, they're used frequently enough. I wouldn't mind if it
> > were
> > only games and mostly unused software.
> 
> Joerg, where is this list of 127? Might be good for everyone to know
> exactly what we're talking about.

Attachment of the original mail.

> What happens if BROKEN? It isn't bulk-built, so there'll be no binary
> packages. Anybody building from source could still unset that if they
> really needed it. Doesn't sound too awful. The only time I can envision
> this being more than a nuisance is for less technical users using
> somewhat obscure/outdated software. I could be wrong.

BROKEN is a pretty strong indicator for "do something or this will be
removed". I guess we should also do a pass over build failures in
geneal.

Joerg