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Bug 433577 - [Future EAPI] use unpacker.eclass instead of unpack
Summary: [Future EAPI] use unpacker.eclass instead of unpack
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Conceptual/Abstract Ideas (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Package Manager Specification
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Blocks: future-eapi
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Reported: 2012-08-31 21:35 UTC by Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)
Modified: 2013-06-18 01:56 UTC (History)
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Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-08-31 21:35:45 UTC 
Unpacker eclass has been in the tree since 2012-02-01 (see bug #399019).
This eclass makes it easy to get consistent behaviour across different package managers (see bug #384147 for inconsistency example). It also allows to add support for new formats in a day (see bug #432214).

Suggestion: In some future EAPI unpack should be replaced by unpacker from unpacker.eclass.
Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2012-08-31 21:50:41 UTC 
How would this work? Package mangler code can't require eclasses.
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2012-08-31 23:09:28 UTC 
Bug #380391 is more realistic IMO, but people will never approve this.

Or just have a Gentoo policy to always inherit some kind of common eclass.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-09-16 20:23:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)

or inherit it whenever you use .deb or a new format.  if you want to enforce the .deb part, you could make it into a repoman check.
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2013-03-14 09:20:26 UTC 
In the current form, this can't work. Since there's no new replies from OP, I'm closing it as CANTFIX.
Comment 5 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-03-14 13:55:38 UTC 
@mgorny: OP ?
Comment 6 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2013-03-14 16:25:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> @mgorny: OP ?

Original Poster, so that would be you ;).
Comment 7 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-03-14 17:31:14 UTC 
Due to comment #1 this is CANTFIX.