The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer 写道：
> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> > It is not clear for me why you choose one over the other.  From 
> > my
> > current understanding, I would be tempted to always use
> > 'package/inherit' and never plain 'inherit'.
>
> I also got confused by that in the past;

Same.  I think it's a rite of passage.  A questionable one.

> The way I process it internally now is this:
>
> If the inheritance is for *same-source/same-version* variants of 
> a
> package, they should use package/inherit, as any security issues 
> found
> in the parent package should also be applied to that package 
> (since they
> use the same source).  Otherwise, plain 'inherit' should be used
> (e.g. for newer version variants).

That about jives with my intuition.

Judging by the (IMO) universal confusion this causes, it is (IMO) 
spectacularly poorly-named.  A docstring doesn't fix that.

Could we rename it to something like 
‘package+replacements/inherit’?  To me, that captures the spirit, 
without being overly longer.

But I'll gladly judge other bikesheds if they lead to a less 
misleading name.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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