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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:10:16
Message-Id: 201205211910.21246.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds! by Francesco Riosa
1 On Monday 21 May 2012 19:01:04 Francesco Riosa wrote:
2 > 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger:
3 > > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:16:25 Markos Chandras wrote:
4 > >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing.
5 > >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then
6 > >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out
7 > >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue was that urgent in order to
8 > >> justify the significant breakage of portage tree.
9 > >
10 > > you're assuming the breakage was intentional. i also wouldn't really
11 > > describe it as "significant", but that's just quibbling over an
12 > > insignificant aspect.
13 >
14 > It's intentional not to revert the change, it's significant because it
15 > involve a number of significant packages like icu, vim and boost, some
16 > of them already marked stable (from a fast grep from the one mentioned
17 > in the previous posts).
18
19 you've identified the broke things. so fix them.
20 -mike

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