The current actions done by domo are unintuitive, hard to understand, and nearly not used Used by only 6 packages, 13 ebuilds Raised in IRC #gentoo-pms
In particular, it's not possible to install for a gettext domain other than ${PN}, which is often not actually what you want (it depends on what the source code declares as the domain) so I simply would not feel safe using it at all. I'm also skeptical since packages which produce .mo files, rather than only .po files, surely have some buildsystem setup already and I believe it unlikely that they will compile them but not install them. It is comparatively quite common for bad Makefiles to compile an executable or library but not install *them*, so other doXXX helpers seem far more useful.
Approved today unanimously.
In the 2025-05-11 Council meeting, the question arose when and why the domo command was added to Portage. I had briefly mentioned it in my recent post to gentoo-dev: https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/u34f9aqh2@gentoo.org/ There I had also included a link to the commit of portage-1.0 in 2000 which already included the domo command. Here is it again: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/commit/?id=e1fb2ea89f665be4f89bc7980a8a26cf349d3972 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/tree/sys-apps/portage/files/ebuild?id=e1fb2ea89f665be4f89bc7980a8a26cf349d3972#n824 I couldn't find any archived discussions from that early period about the rationale for adding the command (which isn't surprising).
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pkgcore/pkgcore.git/commit/?id=fffe9c287c74ed88c4419344e0b7e75a635ebfd2 commit fffe9c287c74ed88c4419344e0b7e75a635ebfd2 Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-06-01 07:15:40 +0000 Commit: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-06-01 07:15:40 +0000 EAPI=9: ban domo Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/951502 Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> data/lib/pkgcore/ebd/eapi/9/src_install.bash | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
