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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:55:45
Message-Id: 3173924.ULbGtHHRMq@porto
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424 by Alexis Ballier
1 Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 10:51:01 CET schrieb Alexis Ballier:
2 > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:41:39 +0100
3 >
4 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Am Dienstag, 21. März 2017, 11:24:39 CET schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
6 > > > So what's so special about your packages that you *need* a hack as
7 > > > ugly as eblits?
8 > >
9 > > No response. Seems like there are no real arguments for eblits.
10 >
11 > I guess the argument is not for or against eblit but rather about "when
12 > you want to change something you don't maintain, you have to justify it
13 > properly"
14
15 No, the argument is about "we want to clean up the tree from abusive hacks".
16
17 This is the same irrationality that still insisted on EAPI=0 when the entire
18 profile tree was already requiring EAPI=5 support.
19
20 --
21 Andreas K. Hüttel
22 dilfridge@g.o
23 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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