From: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:57:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/20] global: prepare for hiding away repo-less config functions
Message-ID: <j6litzbor4sz7pycfh7wf5fmejidf5s75sbw3xgrpuwnroyvh6@kkydoqh47bjm>
In-Reply-To: <f7617beaa5aad64fe98ac52015eb68786114728b.1723013714.git.ps@pks.im>

On 24/08/07 08:58AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> We're about to hide config functions that implicitly depend on
> `the_repository` behind the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro. This
> will uncover a bunch of dependents that transitively relied on the
> global variable, but didn'd define the macro yet.

s/didn'd/didn't/

> Adapt them such that we define the macro to prepare for this change.

Once config functions that rely implicitly on `the_repository` are
guarded by `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE`, the macro will be required to
use them. Now that the dependency is exposed they must be marked
accordingly. Makes sense to me.